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CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System Earns Top Rating in MD Buyline Report

The CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System earned the top rating in MD Buyline's First Quarter 2013 User Satisfaction Report for portable radiographic systems. Users gave the DRX-Revolution the highest rating in all six categories in the report, which included three other suppliers.

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Orion Health and Caradigm Expand Partnership to Deliver Integrated Electronic Health Records, Intelligence Platform and Applications

Caradigm, a Microsoft and GE Healthcare company, and Orion Health, a global leader in eHealth technology and interoperability, today announced they have expanded their alliance agreement to integrate Orion Health's market-leading Electronic Health Records (EHR) solution with the Caradigm Intelligence Platform (CIP) and ecosystem of applications, which will allow healthcare communities to more rapidly address today's most complex challenges - including new models of care delivery and payment, population health management and patient engagement - while also helping to reduce costs and increase revenue.

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Med-e-Tel 2013 - Global Telemedicine and eHealth Conference

10 - 12 April 2013, Luxexpo, Luxembourg.
The 11th edition of Med-e-Tel, the International eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT Forum, will take place at the Luxexpo Exhibition and Congress Center in Luxembourg. Med-e-Tel, organized by the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH), is one of the premier events worldwide in the field of Telemedicine and eHealth and brings together every year in Luxembourg, since 2002, participants from 50 countries around the world.

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Computer Based Interventions Provide Limited Support

Self-management interventions delivered by computer and mobile phone currently provide limited benefits for people with diabetes, according to a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. Although computer and mobile phone-based self-management programmes had small positive effects on blood sugar levels, these effects seemed to be short-lived.

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Half a Million Patients Benefit from 'Life Saving' Bristol Record Sharing Project

A&E doctors are now able to provide safer emergency care round the clock to some 500,000 patients across the Bristol area - thanks to a secure electronic record sharing agreement with 50 local GP practices. The Patient Record Network (PRN) enables A&E doctors to view patient records within minutes via EMIS' EPR Viewer, which makes key information from the patient's GP record available to other clinicians.

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The Personal Assistant App for People with Rheumatic Disease

The Italian Association for People with Rheumatic Diseases (A.P.MA.R.) has announced the successful launch in Italy of the advanced mobile Application Software (App) for people with rheumatoid arthritis, named the Rheumatoid Arthritis App. A.P.MA.R.’s project has been developed by SB Soft s.r.l., with scientific support from Dr. Marilena Serra, Rheumatologist, Vito Fazzi Hospital of Lecce and Dr. Tiziana Nava, President GIS Rheumatology -AIFI (Italian Association of Physiotherapists) and made possible with a contribution from MSD Italy.

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eHealth Networking Event of the Year

13 - 15 May 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
Next to interesting workshops, eHealth Week 2013 will be all about networking. Commissioners and other high level politicians will be there to interact, and participants from both the EU as the US will have their own networking marketplace.

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Interoperability: A Joint Standard for Electronic Patient Files

9 - 11 April 2013, Berlin, Germany.
The forthcoming presentation of the 2.0 version of the Electronic Patient File (EFA) and the IHE Cookbook at conhIT 2013 will enable the healthcare IT industry to pave the way for a wider communication of electronic patient file data across all sectors within Germany. In the future it will be possible to make use of different types of electronic patient files that will employ standards able to withstand the test of time.

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FairWarning® Urges NHS to Build in Privacy and Respect for the Patient

FairWarning®, the global leader in patient privacy monitoring, has contributed to Intellect's response to the government's plans for a paperless NHS. In its report 'Digitising the NHS by 2018', the UK's technology association provides its views on achieving this important challenge.

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NHS Scotland Chooses Carestream Technology for Breast Cancer Screening

NHS Scotland has further strengthened its strategic partnership with Carestream Health by signing an amendment to the long standing contract between the two organisations. The company will supply CARESTREAM Vue Mammography PACS to all of Scotland's Breast Screening Centres located at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee and Irvine.

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