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Elekta and Philips Establish Research Consortium

Elekta AB (NSE: EKTAb) and Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) will expand a joint program to develop a breakthrough in cancer care with an imaging-treatment platform that merges radiation therapy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology in a single treatment system.

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Agfa HealthCare to Launch Latest Version of IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine

Agfa HealthCare announces that it will launch the latest version of its IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine solution at the 2012 Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) in Milan, Italy. Delivering the benefits of integrated care to the nuclear medicine department, this solution supports the patient's entire exam flow.

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Rochester General Health System Purchases Carestream's Cardiology PACS to Streamline Workflow, Enhance Patient Care

Rochester General Health System (Rochester, N.Y.) purchased CARESTREAM Vue for Cardiology to achieve greater efficiency through the integration of cardiology exams with its radiology PACS and its EMR. The hospital also plans to leverage its existing Vue Archive as a centralised repository for cardiology and radiology imaging studies.

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The Citizens of the EU and the USA Deserve an e-Leap in Health Care

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, who was invited to Boston as a keynote speaker at the top level "2012 Transatlantic Health IT/eHealth Cooperation Assembly", an eHealth event organised by the European Union and the United States of America, searched for answers to the following question in his presentation: what are the co-operation opportunities between the EU and the USA in the contemporary organisation of medicine, which is largely dependent on information technology?

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Opinion Article: Raising the Bar for Gold Standard Care

By James Turnbull, Managing Director, Sales, Northgate Managed Services.
The NHS truly is a global brand. The opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, quite rightly, presented the health service as one of the UK's most treasured possessions - and one of its proudest accomplishments. But, following a sporting summer where athletes have pushed themselves towards the limits of human achievement, the NHS must itself raise the bar if it is to maintain its position as a world-class performer and redefine the gold standard of patient care.

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Doctors 2.0™ & You - The First Confirmed Keynotes and Themes

6 - 7 June 2013, Paris, France.
The 3rd international and patient inclusive Doctors 2.0™ & You congress is still accepting applications for speakers, sponsors, posters and start-ups. Doctors 2.0™ and You, in pursuit of its mission to make things better for patients everywhere, is a "patient inclusive" conference patients includedwhich engages physicians and healthcare providers to interact with patients, industry, government and payers.

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Hospitals from France, Spain and the Netherlands win Awards

HIMSS Analytics Europe announced that it will be awarding EMRAM Stage 6 & 7 awards to hospitals from France, Spain and the Netherlands at its annual CIO Summit taking place in Mallorca, November 18-20, 2012. The winners will be receiving their awards at the Awards Dinner on November 19th.

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WHO Forum on Health Data Standardization and Interoperability

3 - 4 December 2012, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland.
Interoperability has been　 recognized as essential to achieving the full potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and medical devices in support of health systems as part of the overall socioeconomic development of countries.

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The Third Annual Health 2.0 Europe Conference in Berlin

6 - 7 November 2012, Berlin, Germany.
Healthcare is changing profoundly due to new web and mobile applications. The conference Health 2.0 Europe addresses recent developments in this emerging field. The 2012 edition features exciting live technology demos and panels dedicated to answering the most urgent questions in health care.

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Computer Simulator to Manage Hospital Emergencies

Researchers of the group High Performance Computing for Efficient Applications and Simulation (HPC4EAS) of the Department of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in collaboration with the team at the Emergency Services Unit at Hospital de Sabadell (Parc Taulí Healthcare Corporation), have developed an advanced computer simulator to help in decision-making processes (DSS, or decision support system) which could aid emergency service units in their operations management.

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