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Pennine Acute to Roll-Out iSOFT's New E-Whiteboards to 97 Wards

The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is to roll-out iSOFT-developed electronic whiteboards to 97 wards across its five hospitals before the end March 2012, following a pilot on eight wards that is already starting to show improvements in efficiency and patient safety.

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Commission Proposes €80 Billion Investment in Research and Innovation

The European Commission has presented a package of measures to boost research, innovation and competitiveness in Europe. Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has announced Horizon 2020, an €80 billion programme for investment in research and innovation.

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Creation of European Connected Health Alliance

Europe's leading Connected Health and M-Health membership organisations announced today that they will merge to create the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance). With over 100 members throughout Europe, ECHAlliance will provide a solid foundation for further expansion in the rapidly growing MHealth and Connected Health markets.

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340 Events for European Robotics Week

Over 120 organisations from industry, research institutes and universities representing 17 European countries are taking part in the first European Robotics Week. A considerable share of research in robotics in Europe is focused on medical and rehabilitation research, such as robotics surgery and patient rehabilitation, for example with stroke patients who need constant monitoring and regularly adjusted support.

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€ 2.5 Billions to Boost Business Competitiveness and SMEs 2014 - 2020

Promote access to finance and encouraging an entrepreneurial culture, including the creation of new enterprises are the core issues of the new financial support programme, tabled by the European Commission in Brussels.

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New Potential Personalized Medicine Platform

p-medicine project, launched in February this year, is a 4-year Integrated project aiming at developing a new and state-of-the-art IT platform for personalized medicine. The researchers elaborated the first deliverables according to the agreed 'Description of Work', they identified and described motivated use case scenarios by underlining the p-medicine platform's end user needs and requirements.

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Leeds Teaching Hospital Modernises its IT Integration Using InterSystems Ensemble

InterSystems announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have implemented InterSystems Ensemble® as the foundation of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The Trust selected InterSystems Ensemble as its seamless platform for integration and the development of connectable applications to modernise its integration capability.

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ARMTELEMED-1 Congress: Global Report

By Organizing Committee of ARMTELEMED-1
As we are summarizing the results of the First Armenian International Congress on Telemedicine and eHealth "ARMTELEMED: Road to the Future" we would like to share with you some of the statistics pertinent to the event, and to discuss the main outcomes and achievements thereof.

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Agfa HealthCare Signs IMPAX RIS/PACS Agreement with University Medical Center in Maastricht

Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with the Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum+ (University Medical Center - UMC+) in The Netherlands to install its IMPAX Radiology Information System/Picture Archiving and Communication System (RIS/PACS) and IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine.

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Irish Government Turns to McKesson to Revolutionise Medical Imaging Delivery Across the Country

McKesson announced the successful deployment of its market-leading medical imaging solution at the first four of 35 hospitals in Ireland as part of an exclusive partnership with the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE).

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