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HIMSS Europe Webinar: Opportunities for U.S Health IT Companies in Europe & Introduction to eHealth Week 2013

15 April 2013, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CET
Join this webinar to learn about the opportunities for U.S Health IT Companies in Europe and about eHealth Week 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. eHealth Week 2013 brings together two main events: the High Level eHealth Conference co-organised by the European Commission and the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and WoHIT (World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition) organised by HIMSS Europe.

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AAL Forum 2013 and Call for Contribution

24 - 26 September 2013, Norrköping, Sweden.
The annual conference of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP), the AAL Forum, is entitled "Impacting individuals, society and economic growth" and its goal is twofold: on the one hand the conference will showcase the significant progresses made by the AAL JP projects and solutions in the exhibition area with various demos and presentations, whereas the discussion in the sessions and in the plenaries will address two important questions:

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Transformational Telemonitoring NI Service Celebrated by Northern Ireland Health Minister

Experts from across Northern Ireland gathered this week to mark the success of the Telemonitoring NI service. The service, which is being provided by the TF3 Consortium in conjunction with the five health and social care trusts, is designed to transform patient care across Northern Ireland by enabling better control over their health and improving care outcomes, and has benefitted 1,500 patients to date.

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iMDsoft Opens New Office in Germany

iMDsoft®, a leader in clinical information systems, announced the opening of a new office with an expanded workforce in Düsseldorf, demonstrating their firm commitment to the European market. The local team will now include a German-based professional services team providing support 24/7.

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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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