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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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Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme Catalogue of Projects 2012

This catalogue provides an overview of the 102 projects that have resulted from the first four calls published by the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AALJP). This is an insight into the products, systems and services that are being developed by hundreds of small and medium enterprises, research, user organisations and others, throughout Europe.

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Health 2.0 Europe: Highlights and Sneak Peek

6 - 7 November 2012, Berlin, Germany.
Over 400 Health 2.0 stakeholders from more than 25 countries including health authorities, policy makers, health entrepreneurs, IT solution providers, care givers, patient organizations, public and private insurance organizations, pharma companies, VCs and financiers...

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Patients Across Northern Ireland are Benefiting from Improved Care Through Telemonitoring

TelemonitoringNI is the largest telemonitoring service in the UK and Northern Ireland. The service, provided by TF3 in conjunction with the five Health and Social Care Trusts, is transforming the care of 1000 people with long-term conditions, and is set to benefit up to 20,000 people over six years by enabling better control over their own health and improving care outcomes.

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