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Opinion Article: Put in the Frame

By Helen Parslow, Director of Marketing and Business Development EMEA, Harris Healthcare.
It's not only difficult for suppliers to find and manage the resource and expense required to take a procurement process from start to finish but it is equally as painful for NHS organisations trying to ensure they get what they need, when they need it and for an investment that fits budgets and business case requirements.

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European Health Award 2013: Six Shortlisted Projects with a Patient-Centred Focus

Six cutting-edge projects are in the running for the prestigious €10,000 European Health Award 2013, sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health and FOPI, which brings together Austria's research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The winner will be chosen by a panel of leading health experts, and announced during the 16th EHFG conference, being held in the Gastein Valley from the 2nd to 4th October.

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Join Hospital+Innovation Congress in Denmark

30 September - 1 October 2013, Odense, Denmark.
The conference program will be designed as a combination of contributions from Danish and international keynote speakers and open innovation workshops that will contribute to the understanding of how to create a health care system which ultimately focuses on the individual patient's needs, e.g. through flexible hospitals, modern management and telemedicine.

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Shared Record Gives 'Complete Picture' of Vulnerable Children in Scotland

A new electronic record-sharing project in Scotland could help stop 'at risk' children falling through the care net. More than 250 professionals across 10 Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services teams (CAMHS) in the Greater Glasgow area are now providing 'joined up' psychiatric care to more than 5,000 children and teenagers in a ground-breaking scheme.

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Registration Now Open for HIMSS Amsterdam

31 October - 1 November 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
For the first time ever, the true state of Healthcare IT adoption in the Netherlands has been revealed - and the results are surprising. Compared to the rest of Europe, the Netherlands is in the top tier, but HIT adoption is just the first of many challenges. The HIMSS Amsterdam 2013 conference opens up three key themes critical to the success of healthcare: Adoption, Change Management and Interoperability.

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Statement on MEDICA 2013 by Joachim Schäfer, Managing Director of Messe Düsseldorf GmbH

20 - 23 November 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The global health market is growing annually by about six per cent. The drivers of this development are an ageing society in many countries, in others a strong population growth, technical advancement and above all, the increased purchasing power all over the world. Against this background, the health markets in the majority of countries are developing faster than the gross domestic product.

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Psychotherapy via the Internet

Does psychotherapy via the Internet work? For the first time, clinical researchers from the University of Zurich have studied whether online psychotherapy and conventional face-to-face therapy are equally effective in experiments. Based on earlier studies, the Zurich team assumed that the two forms of therapy were on a par. Not only was their theory confirmed, the results for online therapy even exceeded their expectations.

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Swiss, French & German Scientists Develop Miniature Artificial Insect Eyes

Scientists in Switzerland, Germany, and France explored how the insect eye works and designed and built the first fully-functional miniature curved artificial compound eyes. The "CURVACE" project received €2 million in EU funding to develop the miniature "insect" eyes, which have high industrial potential in mobile robotics, smart clothing and medical applications.

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CompuGroup Medical Italia Strengthens its Presence in the Dental Software Market

CompuGroup Medical Italia acquired a majority stake in Tekne S.r.l., located in Ragusa (Italy). Tekne, with its software XDent, is the market leader for Mac OS software for dentists in Italy. With this acquisition, CGM has strengthened its position as a market leader in the Italian market for ambulatory information systems.

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Freeman Hospital Invests Further with Carestream Drx-Evolution

The Radiology Department at Freeman Hospital, part of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has recently installed a third CARESTREAM DRX-Evolution room to replace an aging CR room. Freeman Hospital is one of the largest teaching hospital Trusts in the country and the Radiology Directorate within Newcastle carries out in excess of 440,000 examinations a year.

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