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The Personal Connected Health Alliance Launches with Goal to Improve Health and Wellness through Connected Technologies

The Personal Connected Health Alliance, an international non-profit organization established by Continua Health Alliance, mHealth Summit and HIMSS to represent the consumer voice in personal connected health, formally launched. PCHA will build upon the global reach, leadership and resources of its founding organizations, to ensure that personal connected health technologies, such as smartphones, mobile apps, sensors and personal health tracking devices, are user-friendly, secure and can easily collect, display and relay personal health data.

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SMARTT e-Patch is a Winner at the French 'Worldwide Innovation Challenge'

Rhenovia Pharma, a biotechnology company specialized in the application of biosimulation to the research and development of new medicinal products, today announces that its SMARTT e-Patch project has won an award at the 'World Innovation Challenge'; founded by the President of France to identify future champions in the French economy.

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Philips' First Quarter Results 2014 - Healthcare Sector

Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHIA) reports that healthcare comparable sales showed a 2% decline year-on-year. Home Healthcare Solutions posted mid-single-digit growth, while Customer Services and Patient Care & Clinical Informatics achieved low-single-digit growth. Imaging Systems recorded a double-digit decline. In growth geographies, comparable sales showed a mid-singledigit decline.

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Doctors 2.0 & You and the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs Announce Partnership

5 - 6 June 2014, Paris, France.
Doctors 2.0 & You, the international healthcare social media conference, and SoPe, the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs, a global biomedical and healthcare innovation network to accelerate medical innovation for patients, have announced their partnership to communicate to physician entrepreneurs about the opportunities in digital health.

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Network, Learn and Engage at the mHealth Summit Europe

6 - 8 May 2014, Berlin, Germany.
Like no other event, mHealth Summit Europe provides international thought leadership on how we can fulfil the mHealth promise. The event addresses opportunities and challenges, as well as strategies for taking mHealth from pilots to true implementation. mHealth Summit Europe brings together global leaders in government, the private sector, industry, academia, providers and not-for-profit organizations from across the mHealth ecosystem.

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Public Consultation on the Green Paper on Mobile Health (mHealth)

The European Commission has launched a public consultation on the Green Paper on Mobile Health (mHealth), inviting comments on the barriers and issues related to the use of mHealth. Your input will help identify the right way forward to unlock the potential of mobile health in the EU.

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Denmark Displays Solutions and Visions for the Health IT Sector

6 - 8 May 2014, Berlin, Germany.
As the partner country of conhIT 2014 Denmark will be represented on all three days of the event, and not only at the Industrial Fair. It will also be participating in the Congress, where Danish speakers will be holding five lectures at four sessions. On Wednesday, 7 May at 3.30 p.m. an event under the heading of "Innovation Exchange Project Pitching Contest" will be taking place.

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Special Report: Enterprise Imaging

In the digital age, healthcare, like so many other sectors, has become information-intensive. To seamlessly share this information, healthcare organizations need a solution that spans department, facility and even geographical boundaries. By bringing down the borders to interoperability, they can create opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity, decision making and patient care.

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Green Paper on Mobile Health (mHealth)

Mobile health (hereafter "mHealth") covers "medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices". It also includes applications (hereafter "apps") such as lifestyle and wellbeing apps that may connect to medical devices or sensors (e.g. bracelets or watches) as well as personal guidance systems, health information and medication reminders provided by sms and telemedicine provided wirelessly.

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Health Outcomes for Major Medical Conditions Vary Considerably across Europe

Health outcomes for major medical conditions requiring hospital care vary considerably between and within European countries, according to a study evaluating the performance of seven European health care systems. The EuroHOPE (European Health Care Outcomes, Performance, and Efficiency) research project compared the health outcomes during the latter part of the 2000s for acute myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, hip fracture, breast cancer and very low birth weight and very low gestational age newborn infants, as well as all-disease outcome measures.

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