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Headline Sponsors Harris Healthcare to Show How to Achieve Better Outcomes through Value-Based Healthcare

Headline sponsors Harris Healthcare, will highlight the critical role of technology in providing value-based healthcare at this year's Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology EXPO at Olympia, London. Wayne Parslow, VP EMEA Harris Healthcare will discuss how value-based healthcare, which is centred around delivering better outcomes by utilising the same or less resource, can only be achieved by discovering better models of care and using the right technology to support it.

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Carestream Taking Orders for Latest Version of CR-Based Image Acquisition/Mini-PACS Software

Carestream Health is taking orders for the latest version of its CARESTREAM Image Suite Software, which offers CR-based image acquisition and an optional mini-PACS module. Image Suite delivers fully featured image acquisition, Web-based patient scheduling, image review and reporting, as well as flexible archiving solutions.

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Europeans Welcome Use of Robots

More than two-thirds of EU citizens (70%) have a positive view of robots, according to a new EU Eurobarometer survey; the majority agree that robots "are necessary as they can do jobs that are too hard or too dangerous for people" (88%) and that "they are a good thing for society because they help people" (76%).

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Serious Games Could be Integrated into Surgical Training

Serious gaming can be used to enhance surgical skills, but games developed or used to train medical professionals need to be validated before they are integrated into teaching methods, according to a paper in the October issue of the surgical journal BJS.

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Med-e-Tel 2013 Call for Abstracts

10 - 12 April 2013, Luxexpo, Luxembourg.
Med-e-Tel encourages healthcare providers, medical practitioners, nursing professionals, government officials, researchers, educators, and industry representatives to submit presentation proposals for the Med-e-Tel 2013 conference program.

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Agfa HealthCare and Orion Health Form Global Strategic Relationship for eHealth

Agfa HealthCare, a global leader in enterprise imaging and clinical workflow solutions, and Orion Health, a global leader in health information exchange (HIE) and healthcare integration solutions, announced a global strategic relationship to image-enable Electronic Health Records (EHRs),

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Tunstall Healthcare Announces Partnership with Leading Risk Stratification Provider, Health Intelligence

Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telehealth and telecare in the UK, has partnered with risk stratification provider Health Intelligence to enhance and support the delivery of its fully managed telehealthcare service, Tunstall LifeCare.

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Measuring Glucose without Needle Pricks

Pricking a finger everyday is just part of everyday life for many diabetes patients. A non-invasive measurement approach could release them from the constant pain of pin pricks. The linchpin is a biosensor engineered by Fraunhofer researchers: A tiny chip combines measurement and digital analysis - and can be radioed to a mobile device.

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The First JHI Connected Care Challenge Europe

Janssen Healthcare Innovation (JHI) announced the first ever JHI Connected Care Challenge Europe - a start-up and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Challenge with three unique categories to spur innovation and drive action towards achieving better care and better health at lower cost through continuous improvement.

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Immunochip to Survey Genome Regions

Researchers have newly identified three genetic regions associated with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), the most common autoimmune liver disease, increasing the number of known regions associated with the disorder to 25. The team used a DNA microchip, called Immunochip, to survey more thoroughly regions of the genome known to underlie other autoimmune diseases to discover if they play a role also in PBC susceptibility.

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