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France - A Major European Health Tech Market

2 - 4 April 2014, Nice, France.
Nice is the glittering host for next April's landmark WoHIT event - the first time the conference has taken place in the important French market. Attendees from French organisations, especially ones working with the HIMSS EMRAM model, is expected to be considerable - though a fully pan - European audience is guaranteed, too.

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Computer Models of Neuronal Sound Processing in the Brain Lead to Cochlear Implant Improvements

Children learning to speak depend on functional hearing. So-called cochlear implants allow deaf people to hear again by stimulating the auditory nerve directly. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are working to overcome current limits of the technology. They are investigating the implementation of signals in the auditory nerve and the subsequent neuronal processing in the brain. Using the computer models developed at the TUM manufacturers of cochlear implants improve their devices.

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IT Adoption in the NHS: Learning from Past Lessons

By Richard Craven, Vice-president and Managing Director, EMEA for Caradigm.
Influential politicians continue to voice very strong criticism over the cost of the National Programme for IT; but a greater concern is that the health service still does not have the information systems it needs to help clinicians improve healthcare and deliver an affordable healthcare economy in the future.

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Galway Pilots Aura's Flow to Ease Hospital Winter Pressures

Galway University Hospitals is piloting Aura Healthcare’s patient flow solution in a bid to manage winter pressures and bed shortages at the 600-bed hospital. Enda Daly, Galway’s head of bed management, says the main objectives are to avoid patients being left without a bed, while ensuring waiting list targets for inpatient procedures are met.

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Draft Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2014 - 2015 in the Area of Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing

This paper is made public just before the adoption process of the work programme to provide potential participants with the currently expected main lines of the work programme 2014-2015. It is a working document not yet endorsed by the Commission and its content does not in any way prejudge the final decision of the Commission. The adoption and the publication of the work programme by the Commission are expected in mid - December 2013. Only the adopted work programme will have legal value, subject to, among others:

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Med-e-Tel 2014: Call for Abstracts

9 - 11 April 2014, Luxembourg.
Join Med-e-Tel 2014 - 12th edition - and actively participate in the educational and information program of seminars, workshops, demonstrations and interactive panel discussions on eHealth, Telemedicine and ICT applications in medicine, health and social care. Med-e-Tel is the official event of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth, the international federation of national associations who represent their country's Telemedicine and eHealth stakeholders.

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Gateshead Health Chooses BridgeHead's VNA for its Image Data Management Strategy

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, also known as QE Gateshead, has selected BridgeHead Software (BridgeHead), the Healthcare Data Management company, to implement its Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) for a multi-staged image management project. QE Gateshead is actively taking strategic decisions across the Trust to create a comprehensive electronic patient record (EPR) and is embarking upon a data strategy to help facilitate the EPR of which the VNA plays a significant part.

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New Version of syngo.via brings "Anatomical Intelligence" to Diagnostic Reading

Siemens Healthcare introduces version VA30 of its routine 3D and advanced reading software syngo.via, featuring new applications and functionalities that further streamline and accelerate the syngo.via experience. The latest innovation is the syngo.via General Engine, a new package of highly automated and standardized applications.

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Tunstall Healthcare Joins Employers for Carers

Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telehealth and telecare solutions, has renewed its commitment to supporting working carers by joining Employers for Carers, the national membership forum for employers supported by national charity Carers UK.

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5 Cool Robots the EU is Funding

It's EU Robotics Week time again. For the third consecutive year, the achievements of Europe's researchers and inventors working in robotics are celebrated in over 300 events from November 25th to December 1st. Here are some examples of the best EU-funded Robotics projects.

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