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NHS Calderdale CCG and Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation Trust Invest in Telehealth Solutions from Tunstall

NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are working in partnership with leading telehealthcare provider Tunstall Healthcare, to provide advanced telehealth solutions that will help to support people with long-term conditions. Telehealth will initially be offered to 24 COPD patients in their own home at any one time, with the initiative expected to develop and to benefit many more patients in the region.

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Opinion Article: The City of the Future is a Healthier Place to Live

By Elena Bonfiglioli, Senior Director, Health Industry, EMEA.
With the majority of our world's population residing in cities, now more than ever we need to find smarter, more sustainable ways to help urban citizens live healthier. The time has come to "mainstream health and social services" in our cities and leverage the interplay between health and other important areas such as education, urban planning, transportation, environmental stewardship, tourism, e-government services, safety and defense.

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New GGI Report Highlights Need for Integration Across Housing, Health and Social Care to Improve Outcomes

A new report published by the Good Governance Institute (GGI) highlights how the successful integration of health, housing and social care services is crucial to the creation of sustainable care models for the future. The new GGI report, Rethinking the Integration Agenda, examines the challenges that currently exist in delivering truly patient-centred care and, drawing on the experience of 16 leading experts from the housing, health and social care sectors, sets out three key pathways to address these challenges and overcome barriers to integration.

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National Wound Healing Centre Uses Anoto Digital Pens to Track Patient Outcomes

Anoto, a leader in digital writing technology, has announced that National Wound Healing Centres (WHC), a clinic specialising in wound care, is now using Anoto digital pens and TELERwoundcare measurements from Anoto partner, Longhand Data to report patient progress digitally back to its head quarters.

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BridgeHead Announces Integrated Protection and Recovery for Caché® Databases

BridgeHead Software has announced its Data Protection Suite for InterSystems Caché® databases, a backup and recovery solution that fully integrates with Caché to provide rapid and reliable management of hospital data. InterSystems Caché ® is an advanced object database at the heart of many hospital applications, including Electronic Medical Records (EMR) applications from Allscripts, Epic Systems, GE Healthcare, McKesson, Siemens, as well as InterSystems themselves.

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Chips that Mimic the Brain

No computer works as efficiently as the human brain - so much so that building an artificial brain is the goal of many scientists. Neuroinformatics researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have now made a breakthrough in this direction by understanding how to configure so-called neuromorphic chips to imitate the brain's information processing abilities in real-time.

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Isala Clinics in the Netherlands Speeds Up Radiology Workflow and Patient Throughput with Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX RIS/PACS

Agfa HealthCare has successfully implemented its latest IMPAX picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and radiology information system (RIS) at Isala Clinics in the Netherlands. Following a visit to Agfa HealthCare's demo site in Liege, Isala recognized that the solution would answer its needs for greater stability, very fast speed and excellent speech recognition.

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Philips' Second Quarter Results 2013 - Healthcare Sector

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced that healthcare currency-comparable equipment order intake increased by 7% year-on-year, with both Imaging Systems and Patient Care & Clinical Informatics showing growth. Comparable sales were flat year-on-year as the growth at Customer Services, Patient Care & Clinical Informatics and Home Healthcare Solutions was offset by a decline at Imaging Systems due to soft order intake in the previous quarters.

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3rd EU-US eHealth Business Marketplace and Conference

22 - 23 October 2013, Boston, USA.
Global connected health innovators, public officials and business leaders will convene for the 3rd EU-US eHealth Business Marketplace and Conference. This event is part of the Connected Health Week, in the heart of American health innovation.

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'Intelligent Knife' Tells Surgeon which Tissue is Cancerous

Scientists have developed an "intelligent knife" that can tell surgeons immediately whether the tissue they are cutting is cancerous or not. In the first study to test the invention in the operating theatre, the "iKnife" diagnosed tissue samples from 91 patients with 100 per cent accuracy, instantly providing information that normally takes up to half an hour to reveal using laboratory tests.

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