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HIMSS Europe Webinar: Healthcare Data Security - Surviving the Perfect Storm

27 February 2013, 11:00 CET.
Mobile healthcare workers and BYOD, explosion of data and sophisticated hackers, increased regulatory complexities and looming penalties make Healthcare Data Security a huge threat to hospital budgets and patient care, ultimately jeopardizing the privacy and wellbeing of citizens. This webinar will explore easy steps to improving security at your hospital so that technology can enable, not endanger, clinical workflows and patient outcomes.

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Come and Experience the Future of eHealth & Mobile Health Technology

13 - 15 May 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
In May at the Convention Centre Dublin, global decision makers from European public and private healthcare will join High Level European Ministers and EU Commissioners along with over 2,500 international delegates and 100 exhibitors to attend eHealth Week, co-organised by the European Commission, the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union and HIMSS Europe.

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Opinion Article: Should the NHS be Empowering its Own Champions?

By Julian Osborne, IMS MAXIMS.
The last month saw the major NHS systems' integration and IT services provider, 2e2, go into administration. The company has faced a turbulent time over the last twelve months and there were indications of future trouble.

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TotalMobile™ to Support Mobile working Across All Care Settings

Healthcare professionals working on mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, will now be able to update patient information and record medical tasks at the point of patient contact with the launch of the management workflow solution, TotalMobile, into the UK market.

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Join the mHealth Symposium at eHealth Week 2013

13 - 15 May 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
mHIMSS a new member community of HIMSS, will be hosting a two day mHealth Symposium as a dedicated part of eHealth Week. The event will feature presentations from global mHealth leaders on topics including:

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IHE-Europe Connects the Continents in Istanbul

The IHE European Connectathon, the landmark testing event for health IT systems, takes interoperability to a new level gathering actors from across Europe and the Middle East to achieve the safe exchange of medical information and improve patient care. The theme "Connecting the Continents" will be realized with the first IHE International World Summit, the Projectathon testing the cross-border exchange of patient data, and meetings of international organizations,

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The PROTECT Project on Pharmacovigilance Achieves Key Objectives

The PROTECT project, a public-private partnership for innovative methodologies in pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology coordinated by the European Medicines Agency, has reached a crucial stage with the delivery of two databases which will offer access to important data resources for pharmacovigilance activities and pharmacoepidemiological studies.

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Agfa HealthCare Will Highlight an Imaging Portfolio that Empowers Radiology, and Beyond

Agfa HealthCare announces that at ECR 2013, it will demonstrate - under the umbrella theme of M-power your radiology department - how its growing portfolio of diagnostic imaging solutions delivers on the imaging needs of the radiology department. Agfa HealthCare will launch its new CR 12-X* table-top Computed Radiography (CR) system.

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Boosting eHealth: New EU Action Plan

Managing your health and wellbeing with the help of digital and online tools is set to become easier and more commonplace following the adoption of a second EU Action Plan for eHealth. This Action Plan - which runs from 2012 to 2020 - aims to make healthcare more efficient, cost-effective and patient oriented. In 2014, the Commission will also present ideas to boost Mobile Health, e.g. real-time monitoring of patients' vital signs via mobile telemedicine.

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European Telemedicine Conference Announced

29 - 30 October 2013, Edinburgh, UK.
HIMSS Europe, Odense University Hospital, NHS 24 and UPMC have announced a new partnership alliance, responsible for the organisation and execution of a new annual European Telemedicine conference. The event will be focusing on practical telemedicine, telecare and mobile health implementations, best practices, research, development, innovation, - all with a universal application.

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