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eHealth Week's Programme Unveils

13 - 15 May 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
eHealth Week 2013 provides an opportunity to see and showcase the best in International eHealth practices featuring a range of expert sessions. Find out below what's happening at eHealth Week.

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Agfa HealthCare Introduces Solutions for Collaborative Care and Patient Engagement

Agfa HealthCare announces new solutions to assist healthcare providers in meeting the demands of an evolving healthcare landscape, including Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). By providing solutions that better engage clinicians and patients, as well as delivering disparate data to a single desktop, Agfa HealthCare is helping to accelerate the transformation of healthcare.

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IMS MAXIMS Announced as Finalist in HealthInvestor Awards

IMS MAXIMS has announced that it has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 'Technology provider of the year' category for the HealthInvestor Awards 2013. The prestigious HealthInvestor awards recognise innovation in the healthcare sector and celebrate excellence in a wide range of categories from complex care provider of the year to diagnostics provider of the year.

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Tieto and Phoniro Creates a Mobile Solution for Home Care Services

Tieto has signed a partnership agreement with Phoniro Systems AB that will give municipal home care services in Sweden access to a comprehensive mobile solution. The solution consist tools for planning, digital key management, mobile documentation and time and work registration fully integrated with the business system, Laps Care planning tool and Lifecare Mobil Hemvård (mobile home care).

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'Advanced Community' is the First Community Healthcare System Focused on Delivering Mobile Working

Kent Community Health NHS Trust (KCHT), one of the largest community service providers in the UK employing in the region of 5,400 staff, has selected Advanced Community, a sophisticated community healthcare system from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced). The contract will run for a minimum of three years.

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Research Partnership to Reveal What Doctors Worldwide Say on Social Media About Cardiovascular Disease & Treatments

Doctors 2.0 TM & You and Creation Healthcare have announced a research partnership that will reveal for the first time how healthcare professionals (HCPs) discuss cardiovascular disease and treatments using public social media channels. The research is being conducted using Creation Pinpoint, the world's first social media monitoring tool dedicated to studying public conversations among HCPs, and will be presented at Doctors 2.0 & You in Paris, June 6 - 7, 2013.

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Sniffing out the Side Effects of Radiotherapy May Soon be Possible

Researchers at the University of Warwick and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust have completed a study that may lead to clinicians being able to more accurately predict which patients will suffer from the side effects of radiotherapy. Gastrointestinal side effects are commonplace in radiotherapy patients and occasionally severe, yet there is no existing means of predicting which patients will suffer from them.

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Check out the Med-e-Tel 2013 Conference Program

10 - 12 April 2013, Luxexpo, Luxembourg.
Stepping away from your daily activities for just a few days and attending Med-e-Tel 2013 will provide you with an opportunity to obtain practical and useful information on current telemedicine and eHealth topics and applications.

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Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust First to Implement CSC's Complete Next-Generation Pathology Suite

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust will be the first to implement the full suite of CSC's next-generation laboratory products to help meet the evolving demands and requirements of a modern pathology service. Continuing a 20-year partnership, the trust has agreed a five-year extension of its current contract for CSC's laboratory information system, and to adopting new modules as they become available.

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Active and Healthy Ageing - For You & with You

Europe is ageing and that comes with challenges, both social and economic. The number of people aged 65+ in Europe will almost double, from 85 to 151 million in 2060. Living longer is great, but it is also a formidable challenge for both public and private budgets, for public services and for older people and their families. New approaches and solutions are needed urgently and you should be aware of them. Start today with 'Active and Healthy Ageing' and care for your health. The EU is working on new solutions for the problems that demographic ageing brings.

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