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Health IT Strategies in the Era of Integrated Care

The healthcare industry is currently experiencing change at an unprecedented rate. Change is not only occurring in the technology used in diagnostics and care delivery, but this change is so fundamental that it could, and likely will, fundamentally alter the business model of the industry. In recent years, healthcare expenditures have risen consistently and sharply in all Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, outpacing the rate of inflation.

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Eighteen Critical Success Factors for Deploying Telemedicine

The Momentum project published a list of 18 factors that are critical to deploying telemedicine successfully into routine health care. Distilled from an analysis of telemedicine practices by experts from across Europe, these factors will help telemedicine "doers" to build sustainable implementations from the ground up or move experimental pilots into routine care. Telemedicine, which is care where the healthcare professional and the patient are not in the same room, holds promise for European healthcare systems.

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iHealth and Doctors 2.0 & You Announcing a Unique Connected Health Challenge for All Participants #doctors20

5 - 6 June 2014, Paris, France.
Doctors 2.0 & You and iHealth have announced the details of a Connected Health Challenge, part of their Platinum partnership, for the 4th edition of the conference. For the first time in France, a Digital health conference is offering each participant the opportunity of participating in a Quantified Self Walking challenge, thanks to a free activity tracker.

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Agfa HealthCare - First Quarter 2014

Impacted by adverse currency effects, Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased by 11.6 percent. On a currency comparable basis, the decrease amounted to 7.8 percent. A major part of the film revenue decline of the Imaging segment is attributable to the weak performance in the emerging markets. In the segment's digital radiography business (consisting of Computed Radiography, Direct Radiography and the hardcopy business), the DR product range continued its strong growth.

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Electronic Nose Sniffs Out Prostate Cancer Using Urine Samples

We may soon be able to make easy and early diagnoses of prostate cancer by smell. Investigators in Finland have established that a novel noninvasive technique can detect prostate cancer using an electronic nose. In a proof of principle study, the eNose successfully discriminated between prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) by "sniffing" urine headspace (the space directly above the urine sample). Results using the eNose are comparable to testing prostate specific antigen (PSA), reports the Journal of Urology®.

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eHealth Forum: Health Management in the 21st Century

12 - 14 May 2014, Athens, Greece.
This is eHealth Forum week, a time to discuss how technology can bring positive changes into healthcare systems and turn today's health and ageing challenges into economic growth. This year's Forum takes place in Greece, where the successful use of eHealth tools, developed as a result of EU research and innovation funding or support- can inspire other EU countries.

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NHS Trust Deploys Mobile Electronic Observation Solution to Reduce Patient Mortality

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (HEY) have agreed a five year deal with Nervecentre to deliver their e-Observations Decision Support System trust-wide. The solution, the deployment of which has been speeded up through an award from the £100m Nursing Technology Fund, will enable the trust to reduce mortality, improve patient safety and reduce harm.

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(Opinion Article) Mobile Technology: Switching on Community Healthcare

By Colin Reid, CEO, TotalMobile.
As care continues to shift further away from the hospital environment to a more local setting, it has never been more important to find innovative solutions to boost productivity for staff working in the community. Yet, as profound technology advances continue to revolutionise the way we conduct our lives, from online banking to Internet shopping, it seems that the NHS is failing to keep up.

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eHealth Forum Speech: Shaping a Healthier, Stronger Future

Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda.
It is a great pleasure to be here at the high level eHealth Forum. As many of you recall, the first of these eHealth conferences was in 2003: also under the Greek presidency. So today is a historic moment. It's like the Olympics: bringing the eHealth torch back to the presidency that first lit it.

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eHealth Week 2015 is Coming to Riga

11 - 13 May 2015, Riga, Latvia.
Taking place during the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, eHealth Week 2015 comprises of two main events: the High level eHealth conference organised by the Latvian Ministry of Health and the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and WoHIT (World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition) organised by HIMSS.

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