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BridgeHead Software Partners with Capita Healthcare Decisions

BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Data Management (HDM) specialist, and Capita Healthcare Decisions, the leading provider of clinical decision software and managed services for health, announce a partnership. BridgeHead and Capita can now offer new and existing customers a healthcare platform as a service for BridgeHead's Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Solution, enabling hospitals to effectively store, protect and share their healthcare data in a secure, scalable N3 accredited UK data centre.

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HIMSS Europe Online Matchmaking at WoHIT 2014

2 - 4 April 2014, Nice, France.
The World of Health IT 2014 (WoHIT 2014) will combine the following global audiences: influential European C-Suites, Nordic countries looking to invest, non-European decision makers from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the U.S. and Canada... plus a new French audience that is ready to engage to upgrade legacy platforms. Meet and collaborate with delegates from these segments.

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Technology Fund Supports First Stage of "Connecting Care" in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

The first stage of a programme to deliver a detailed, local shared patient record in parts of the South West of England has gone live and subsequently been rewarded with a successful application for NHS England's Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards technology funding to support the second stage.

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International Forum Gastein Calls for Applications for the 2014 European Health Award

In advance of the seventeenth European Health Forum Gastein conference, this year themed "Electing Health - the Europe we want!" which will take place in Austria's Gastein Valley from 1 to 3 October 2014, the International Forum Gastein has announced its annual search for a winner of its European Health Award. The award of €10,000 will be sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health and FOPI, the association of research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in Austria.

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VIGOR++ Workshop 2014 - Showcase of Research Outcomes and Future Outlook

9 May 2014, London, UK.
This workshop is the third in the series and will showcase the outcomes, including a system demonstration, of the VIGOR++ project and explore future work in the integration of clinical data and MRI image analysis, classification and visualisation within the concept of the Virtual Physiological Human.

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HIMSS Holland eHealth Exchange to be Launched at WoHIT 2014

2 - 4 April 2014, Nice, France.
HIMSS Europe is launching the HIMSS Holland eHealth Exchange, a group primarily aimed at Dutch professionals working with healthcare and IT from both public and private sector. The Netherlands currently holds the second highest number of HIMSS EMRAM Stage 6 hospitals only outnumbered by Spain.

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The Human Brain Project Just Got Bigger

One of the biggest EU-funded initiatives, the Human Brain Project (HBP), today announced the beneficiaries of its €8.3 million competitive call for new partners. 32 organisations from 13 countries - Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the UK - will join the partnership. This represents a 40% increase in the number of partners in the HBP consortium.

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Agfa HealthCare Inaugurates New Offices, Reinforcing Commitment to Important Middle East Healthcare Market

Agfa HealthCare has announced the inauguration of its new offices in Riyadh, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The offices were officially opened with the participation of H.R.H. Astrid of Belgium, and in the presence of dignitaries from Belgium and Saudi Arabia, including high level delegations from the Ministry of Health, H.E. Marc Vinck (Belgian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and Guenther Schreiber (Director of Agfa HealthCare Export Region).

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Bristol Clinicians to Gain Easier Access to Radiology Images

Clinicians across Bristol are set to share radiology images far more effectively and improve patient care following the implementation of the Connect and Share registry. As an extension to the Image Exchange Portal (IEP) used across every NHS trust, Connect and Share has successfully completed extensive testing at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. It is now entering the final stages of a pilot programme, before benefiting thousands of clinicians and their patients, with at least two other trusts in the region due to come on board.

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European Research Project Aims at Early Diagnosis of Memory Disorders

The PredictND project, started by European research organisations, aims at developing and validating new procedures for the earlier diagnosis of memory disorders and for detecting individuals at high risk of developing memory disorders. Millions of Europeans who are at risk for experiencing any kind of memory loss would benefit from such a solution. The novel approach will be tested on 800 patients in four hospitals in Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy.

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