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Beckman Coulter Use InterSystems Ensemble Integration Platform to Streamline Automated Pathology Services

InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that Beckman Coulter, one of the world's leading manufacturers of clinical diagnostic equipment, is using InterSystems Ensemble® to improve the way samples are processed in hospital laboratories around the UK. Ensemble is a platform for the rapid integration and development of connectable applications.

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Method Developed by VTT Targets Diagnosis of Early Alzheimer's Disease

A software tool called PredictAD developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland promises to enable earlier diagnosis of the disease on the basis of patient measurements and large databases. Alzheimer's disease currently takes on average 20 months to diagnose in Europe. VTT has shown that the new method could allow as many as half of patients to get a diagnosis approximately a year earlier.

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Healthier Citizens in Healthier Europe

Cutting costs today often means postponing fundamental investments and opportunities to reduce debt, secure better care, and provide broader access. Collectively, we must invest in preventіon and provide better care through innovation and efficiencies. Rapidly ageing population requires a shift towards pervasive social services, the deliіvery of cure and care beyond the boundaries of hospitals and shaping polices and services for healthier cities.

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Philips CarePartners Mobile App Helps Ease the Burden of Caregiver Coordination

Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) announced the release of CarePartners Mobile, a new mobile app designed to help family caregivers coordinate the support they provide their loved ones. The free app, which is available for iPhone and Android, streamlines care coordination, enabling caregivers to:

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Opinion Article: Building an Innovative & Cost Effective Health System in Europe

By Elena Bonfiglioli, Senior Director for Health, Public Sector EMEA.
Health modernization empowers citizens to take greater control over the management of their health. Citizens are increasingly demanding personalized health information and quality care. Adopting information communication technology (ICT) in healthcare, therefore, is critical for its transformative nature that provides citizens access to personalized data which can increase levels of transparency and allow patients to make more informed decisions.

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Patients' Electronic Medical Record to the Foot of the Hospital Bed

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) are collaborating with the firm IonIDE to develop a system that will enable hospital patients who suffer some type of handicap to have access to digital entertainment and communication services by means of an intelligent terminal attached to their beds, which will also allow medical personnel to consult the patient's medical history.

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IBM Delivers New Software to Help Organizations Build Smarter Products

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new software to help organizations bring intelligence to the products, systems and applications people use everyday. From creation to development and delivery, the new software simplifies the entire process enabling organizations to reduce costs, address compliance and regulatory requirements and ultimately get innovative products to market quickly.

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Opinion Article: Build and They Will Come

By Wayne Parslow, Vice President of Harris Healthcare EMEA.
It is no secret that IT in healthcare is less advanced than in most other industries. Anyone looking in from banking, where highly personal financial information is continuously and securely shared, or from a background where social media is actively used to publish locations, photos, thoughts and messages on a daily basis, would probably find themselves struggling to get to grips with the way that patient information is stored on a piece of paper in the place where the patient was treated.

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Agfa HealthCare Wins Uzbekistan Ministry of Health Tender

Agfa HealthCare announces it has won a project of 115 CR 30-X computed radiography (CR) systems with DRYSTAR 5300 direct digital imagers in Uzbekistan. The tender for the Ministry of Health (MOH) is financed by the World Bank. Agfa HealthCare received the official tender award in July, and final contract approval in early November.

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NHS Fife Uses Patientrack Early Warning Score Track and Trigger Solution

NHS Fife is to extend its use of a solution from Patientrack from one ward to eight, helping to further improve patient safety. Patientrack's "always on" active safety and communication system helps clinical staff on wards quickly identity deteriorating patients and support intervention before patients suffer adverse events.

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