See More, Work More Efficiently: Siemens Solutions for Cardiology
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To support patients, physicians and clinical staff, Siemens has developed products and solutions especially tailored to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. These include a new cardiac catheter, clinical IT, applications for computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging and a new system for cardiac molecular imaging. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the number of people dying of cardiovascular diseases will increase to about 23.3 million world-wide by 2030.
Hospital+Innovation Congress: Register Now and Save
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Denmark is building 16 new hospitals and spending almost 6 billion Euro in the process. Meet the people in charge of choosing the solutions that will be adopted including CEO and other C-suites from all five Danish regions. You don't want to miss this exclusive opportunity to network with this influential audience in an intimate conference environment. Learn what solutions they are looking for and their budgets.
Europe's Health IT Leaders To Gather in Madrid
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12 - 14 November 2013, Madrid, Spain.The HIMSS Europe CIO Summit will gather C-Suite Health IT Professionals from across Europe. This is the forum where leaders share today's challenges and formulate decisions of tomorrow. This year's event will be richer and more interactive than previous years with a programme offering two tracks focusing on "Technology's Value Stream in Healthcare" and "A Global Multidisciplinary Approach to Healthcare IT".
Telemedicine & eHealth 2013: Ageing Well - How Can Technology Help?
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25 - 26 November 2013, London, UK.This year's conference will focus on how technology can help people to age well. It will cover a wide palate of issues including both physical and mental conditions, and the importance of social and spiritual considerations too. For recognised conditions, the conference will address recent developments in the use of technology, such as telecare and telehealth, to help improve disease management and encourage patients to take greater responsibility for their conditions.
Agfa HealthCare - Second Quarter 2013
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Mainly due to adverse currency effects, Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased by 2.0 percent to 294 million Euro. Excluding currency effects, revenue remained almost stable. In the Imaging segment, the digital radiography business (consisting of Computed Radiography, Direct Radiography and the hardcopy business) performed strongly, mainly due to the success of the DR product range.
European Journal of ePractice Call for Papers
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The further use of wireless internet and gadgets that receive and transmit data (tablet computers, smartphones and laptops) have constituted a new trend in eHealth, providing for more on-the-spot services. Mobile health (known as mHealth) is a developing trend in the eHealth field that encompasses and exploits much broader use of mobile telecommunications and multimedia technologies as they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless healthcare delivery systems.
SAP and Technical University Munich Decode Human Proteome and Make Data Available for Biomedical Research
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SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and Technical University Munich (TUM) announced ProteomicsDB, a new offering based on the SAP HANA platform that stores protein and peptide identifications from mass spectrometry-based experiments. The proteomic data assembled in the new offering resulted in the identification of proteins mapping to over 18,000 human genes. This represents 90 percent coverage of the human proteome.
Learn from Global Leaders in Telemedicine
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29 - 30 October 2013, Edinburgh, UK.The European Telemedicine Conference is a unique event, which allows you to meet and network with successful telemedicine leaders and experts from UK, USA, Scotland, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Greece and many other countries who have demonstrated continual success.
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Upgrades to Agfa HealthCare's Next Generation Digital Radiography
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Agfa HealthCare has been successfully installing seven new DX-G digitizers and five CR 30-X systems as part of a digital radiography update at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. The digitizers support both standard phosphor plates and needle-based detectors, providing state-of-the-art image quality for the next generation in digital radiography across a broad range of applications.
Catharina Hospital and Philips Announce Results of a Clinical Study
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The Catharina Hospital (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) and Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced the results of a clinical study involving the treatment of 136 patients with complex heart rhythm disorders such as atrial fibrillation (AF). Using Philips' innovative AlluraClarity system with ClarityIQ technology, developed by Philips for use in image-guided catheter-based interventions, electrophysiologists at the Catharina Hospital were able to reduce patients' exposure to X-ray radiation during the procedure by 42% while maintaining image quality.