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Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards

The Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards is a new contest to promote the development of IT applications designed to improve the lives of those with disabilities and people that are older, to help them get more actively involved in society.

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InterSystems Placed in Magic Quadrant for Global Enterprise EHR Systems

InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, has been positioned in the Visionaries quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Global Enterprise electronic health record (EHR ) Systems.(1) The InterSystems TrakCare™ Web-based, unified healthcare information system was reviewed by Gartner for this report.

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New Speech Recognition Interface For CRIS System

Voice Technologies has developed a new interface based on SpeechMagic for the HSS CRIS Radiology Information System, the national radiology system for the NHS in England, in use in 80% of hospitals throughout the UK.

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Global E-Health Forum - Hamburg 2011

11 - 13 October 2011, Hamburg, Germany.
Improving the quality of healthcare, increasing the efficiency of the systems and ensuring patient empowerment - these are the common goals worldwide when discussing the necessary transformation of the systems in order to guarantee a sustainable healthcare delivery in the future.

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New Fluoroscopy System Luminos Agile from Siemens

Luminos Agile is Siemens' first under-table X-ray system with a flexible height-adjustable table. Patients with mobility issues will now find it easier to mount the table, while staff will be able to perform procedures on patients during fluoroscopy more conveniently than ever before.

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HIMSS Europe Autumn Webinar Series

HIMSS Europe will be co-hosting a series of webinars this coming autumn. European healthcare establishments will be faced with substantial challenges over the next decade, forcing European leaders to re-design the European healthcare landscape.

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Top Performing Hospital Selects Version One's Document Management

West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust, recently named the top performing hospital in England for the quality of care it delivers to its patients, is implementing electronic document imaging and data capture software from Version One.

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Start-Up Company Wins Technology Strategy Board Grant to Drive NHS Cost Savings

Thoughtified Limited, a SETsquared start-up company created by graduates of the Department of Computing, University of Surrey has won a major grant from the Technology Strategy Board. The grant will enable the Surrey Research Park-based company to work in the development of a participatory sensing system that will improve the management of NHS patient records in remote patient treatment.

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CSC Completes Development of Master Patient Index in Austria

CSC (NYSE:CSC) in Austria has announced that it has successfully built an integral part of Austria's electronic health record (EHR), the Master Patient Index (MPI). The MPI, which was delivered on time and on budget, will be an essential component in enabling Austria's healthcare professionals to perform a nationwide search for patient information using the patient's social security number or eCard.

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Opinion Article: Public Confidence in NHS Integrity is Under Threat from Staff Breaches of Confidential Patient Information

By Kurt Long, Founder and CEO of FairWarning Inc.
The ability to share computerised patient information represents one of the great hopes for the NHS as it battles to build a sustainable future. Trusts across England are investing tens of millions of pounds in the latest generation of advanced electronic health record (EHR) systems to improve productivity, efficiency and outcomes.

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