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Smartphone App to Ensure Stress-Free Travel this Summer

Just in time for the summer holidays, the EURO 2012 Football Championship and the London 2012 Olympics, the European Commission has launched an application for smartphones explaining how to use the European Health Insurance Card.

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Call For Papers for Special Session: 12th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering

11 - 13 November 2011, Larnaca, Cyprus.
Call For Papers for Special Session on Computational solutions to large-scale data management and analysis in translational, personalized and predictive medicine.
Medicine is undergoing a revolution that is transforming the nature of healthcare from reactive to preventive. The changes are catalyzed by a new systems approach to disease that focuses on integrated diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in individuals.

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Tunstall Named Telehealthcare Provider of the Year

Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telehealthcare solutions, has been named Telehealth/Telecare provider of the year 2012 for the second consecutive year at this year's HealthInvestor Awards, which were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

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Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital Brings Apple® Technology into the Fold

London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital (GOSH) is making a major shift towards integrating Apple technology - benefiting staff and patients. A key project has been in Cardiology where clinicians now use iPads and iMacs for instant access to 3D images of patients' hearts while planning for surgery, or even in theatre.

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Cloud and Social Networking in Healthcare: What are the leaders doing?

9 July 2012, London, United Kingdom.
DocCom, provider of the first cloud-based enterprise social networking platform exclusively for healthcare, today announces that it is partnering with Microsoft to co-host an exclusive event for healthcare professionals that will explore the practical issues, potential pitfalls and transformative opportunities of cloud and social networking for healthcare.

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South African Consultancy to Lead Sub-Saharan Study on eHealth Regulation

Health consultancy Greenfield Management Solutions has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) regarding a study on regulatory aspects for eHealth, including telemedicine and satellite services, in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This project is framed in the recently launched eHSA programme (Satellite-enhanced Telemedicine and eHealth for sub-Saharan Africa).

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Second Wave of Clinical Mobility: Right Device for the Right Task

26 June 2012, 15.00 CET.
HIMSS Europe Webinar (Presented by Intel).
Care delivery costs are rising across Europe and threatening to bankrupt both citizens and their countries. Mobile clinical workflows can help improve efficiency, lower costs and improve care Going mobile is no longer an option, it's a daily expectation. Looking up date at the point of care is a good start, but mobile tools can also help facilitate data sharing and collaboration among the provider team.

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Make or Break - Digital Healthcare and Privacy Reach the Tipping Point

Attacks on patient privacy are of rapidly-growing concern in the UK. There are regular reports of serious data breaches by members of staff which can harm patients, damage the reputations of healthcare providers and erode confidence in electronic care. 'Make or Break - Digital Healthcare and Privacy Reach the Tipping Point' is a new white paper from FairWarning®, the inventor and global leader in privacy breach monitoring and detection for healthcare. It provides incisive analysis of the issues and how they affect key stakeholders, offering sustainable solutions which mean that healthcare providers can rest assured that the confidentiality of their patients is properly protected.

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Luxembourg Ministry of Health eHealth Service Platform Study

This report analyses the opportunities for Luxembourg to implement an interoperability platform for electronic health services and provides recommendations for this platform as well as for related preliminary decisions to be taken. In 2006, the Government Council of Luxembourg approved a national eHealth plan which was developed by a working group of stakeholders in the healthcare sector in Luxembourg.

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How Privacy Considerations Drive Patient Decisions and Impact Patient Care Outcomes

In September 2011, FairWarning® commissioned New London Consulting to develop a survey of United Kingdom patients of care providers to determine how patient privacy considerations impact the actual delivery of healthcare and to what degree patients believed healthcare executives and managers should be held accountable for healthcare privacy protections and breaches. The survey was designed to garner a baseline understanding of patient beliefs relative to a care providers' legal, ethical and moral responsibility to protect patient privacy.

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