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Tech-savvy Baby Boomers to Drive Demand for eHealth

Tech savvy, well-informed baby boomers - "the power of the crowd" - will drive the adoption of ehealth, according to a new report from KPMG International. The report is based on in-depth interviews with ehealth executives representing 15 countries, as well as insights from KPMG's global healthcare partners.

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The Path to Personalized Cancer Treatment

In the largest study of its kind, researchers have profiled genetic changes in cancer with drug sensitivity in order to develop a personalised approach to cancer treatments. The study is published in Nature on Thursday 29 March 2012.

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IBM to Collaborate in Applying Watson Technology to Help Oncologists

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have agreed to collaborate on the development of a powerful tool built upon IBM Watson in order to provide medical professionals with improved access to current and comprehensive cancer data and practices.

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GE & Partners Announce Winners of the First Stage of $100 Million "healthymagination Cancer Challenge"

GE (NYSE: GE) announced five innovation award winners as part of the first stage of its $100 million "GE healthymagination Cancer Challenge." More than 500 ideas from 40 countries were submitted, sparking robust conversations among more than 200 academic institutions and researchers on the Challenge's open innovation platform.

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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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