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Birmingham Telecare Service Celebrates First Anniversary

Birmingham City Council has celebrated the first anniversary of their joint city-wide telecare service, which has to date benefitted 7,000 people across the city. The Birmingham Telecare Service, which aims to support 27,000 people by 2015, enables residents with a wide range of support-needs to remain living independently in their own homes.

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IMS MAXIMS Aims to Reduce 25,000 Preventable Deaths a Year

IMS MAXIMS, a leading provider of clinical information systems, is implementing software into NHS trusts that will ensure risk assessments take place that will help to significantly reduce the number of preventable deaths caused by VTE in UK hospitals every year.

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Breakthrough in Patient and Staff Safety During Cardiac Interventions

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and Main-Taunus Cardiac Center (Bad Soden, Germany) today announced the results of a clinical study that demonstrate that the safety for patients and clinicians can be significantly enhanced during cardiac interventions.

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Agfa HealthCare to Highlight IMPAX Cardiovascular IT Solutions at EuroPCR

Agfa HealthCare will highlight its comprehensive IMPAX Cardiovascular suite of products at the EuroPCR congress, the official congress of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI), from May 21-24, in Paris, France. The focus will be on demonstrating how IMPAX Cardiovascular delivers the benefits of digital cardiology to the cardiologist's fingertips.

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eHealth Irish Presidency Declaration

EU Health Ministers, meeting in Dublin at the Ministerial eHealth High Level Conference organised jointly by the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission, today agreed a Declaration on eHealth presented by the Irish Presidency. The Declaration is aimed at prioritising the use of ICT in health among Member States to contribute to better, safer, sustainable and innovative healthcare systems for all European citizens.

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Agfa HealthCare - First Quarter 2013

Agfa HealthCare's revenue remained almost stable versus last year's first quarter. Excluding currency effects, the business group posted a slight revenue increase. In the IT segment, both the Imaging IT business and the Enterprise IT business performed strongly. The segment posted strong growth figures in North America, Latin America and the North of Europe.

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Commission Awards Prizes to Best eHealth SMEs

European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes has awarded prizes to eHealth SMEs from Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom as part of eHealth Week 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. The winners of the 2nd EU SME eHealth Competition came up with innovations in areas such as improving cognitive behavioural therapy for mental care, improving physiological monitoring, and people facing emergencie.

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Four New Hospitals from the Netherlands, France and Turkey Win Awards

HIMSS Analytics Europe, subsidiary of HIMSS Europe, awarded yesterday four new hospitals in Europe with Stage 6 Award during the forth edition of eHealth Week, that is taking place in Dublin from the 13th to 15th of May.

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Kroes & Borg Welcome Recognition of the Contribution ICT Can Make in Reforming Health Systems

A declaration by the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU committing Member States to developing eHealth ecosystems that could contribute to the reform of health systems has been welcomed by European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Health Commissioner Tonio Borg. The Irish Presidency presented the Declaration at the Ministerial eHealth High Level Conference in Dublin on May 13th.

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Helse Sør-Øst (HSØ), Norway, Awards Eight-Year Contract for Carestream's IT Solutions

Following an extensive and lengthy procurement process, Carestream has been awarded the contract to supply CARESTREAM Vue RIS and Vue PACS to Helse Sør-Øst (HSØ), the largest of the four Regional Health Authorities in Norway. The contract spans eight years and the first phase of installations will extend to five Trusts.

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