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50th UK syngo.via Milestone at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital has become the 50th hospital in the UK to install syngo®.via from Siemens Healthcare. The advanced client-server application is initially being used with a newly installed SOMATOM® Definition Flash CT for the swift collation, pre-processing and interpretation of clinical images.

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Plymouth Buys iSOFT Business Intelligence to Raise Labs Performance

iSOFT, a CSC company, has agreed a deal with Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust for a business intelligence tool to boost performance across its busy laboratory departments to deliver continuous service improvements.

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HCA International Selects FairWarning® Privacy Breach Detection Solution

FairWarning, Inc., the inventor and world's leading supplier of cross-platform solutions that monitor and protect patient privacy in Electronic Health Records, announced HCA International has selected FairWarning® Privacy Breach Detection to enhance their patients' privacy.

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Legal Frameworks for eHealth: Based on the Findings of the Second Global Survey on eHealth

Global Observatory for eHealth series - Volume 5.
Given that privacy of the doctor-patient relationship is at the heart of good health care, and that the electronic health record (EHR) is at the heart of good eHealth practice, the question arises: Is privacy legislation at the heart of the EHR? The second global survey on eHealth conducted by the Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe) set out to answer that question by investigating the extent to which the legal frameworks in the Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) address the need to protect patient privacy in EHRs as health care systems move towards leveraging the power of EHRs to deliver safer, more efficient, and more accessible health care.

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Webinar: Assessing Clinical and Economic Benefits of Biocomputational Models

27 March 2012, 09:00 PDST/13:00 EST/18:00 CEST (UTC +02:00).
The economic assessment method described reflects the latest research from the NMS Physiome project, a cooperation of two of the largest global research projects focusing on predictive, personalised and integrative musculoskeletal medicine: the Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human (VPHOP) project, and the Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures (SIMBIOS) at Stanford University.

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Dame Fiona Caldicott's Independent Patient Data Privacy Review Welcomed as a Critical Opportunity for the NHS

The announcement of Dame Fiona Caldicott's independent review into the protection of patient data has been welcomed as a critical opportunity for the NHS. FairWarning Inc, a global expert in the detection and prevention of electronic health record (EHR) data breaches, believes it could help lay the foundations for secure and trusted electronic healthcare, which will enable better patient outcomes.

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Tieto Mobile Solution Allows Askim to Lead the Way in Norway

The nurses in the Askim Municipality now have more time for patient care. The implementation in Askim of Tieto's improved mobile solution for reporting and documentation for community nursing has simplified employees' working lives.

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Aperio Announces Strategic Collaboration with Dell

Aperio, the leading provider of digital pathology systems, announced a strategic collaboration with Dell to create the world's first scalable, secure medical cloud network for Pathology.

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Gemalto to Issue an Additional 15 Million eHealth Cards in 2012 for AOK Insurees

Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, will issue an additional 15 million second-generation eHealth cards ("eGK", elektronische Gesundheitskarte) to AOK in 2012. AOK (Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse), the Health Insurance Fund, looks after around 25 million people, approximately one third of the population in Germany.

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Scientists Develop a Software Tool for Estimating Heart Disease Risk

University of Granada researchers have developed a software tool that makes an accurate estimation of the risk that a person has to suffer a heart disease. In addition, this software tool allows the performance of massive risk estimations, i.e. it helps estimating the risk that a specific population group has of suffering a heart condition.

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