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Common Clinical Language for NHS

Better patient safety through electronic communication between clinicians has been secured by the adoption of a common clinical language across all healthcare settings and organisations.

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Submit Presentation Proposals for Med-e-Tel 2012

18 - 20 April 2012, Luxembourg.
Med-e-Tel encourages healthcare providers, medical practitioners, nursing professionals, government officials, researchers, educators, and industry representatives to submit presentation proposals for the Med-e-Tel 2012 conference program.

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Growing Diagnostic Testing Demands

The Germano de Sousa Group in Portugal has recently equipped its laboratories with more than 30 Siemens core laboratory instruments to address managing the sheer volume of patients in the areas of chemistry, immunoassay, coagulation, microbiology, molecular, and blood gas testing.

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First Manufacturer to Receive New Official Approval of the e-Health Card in Germany

On October 1 2011, Germany will begin the country-wide distribution of its new electronic health card. Morpho (Safran group) is the first manufacturer to have received official approval for production of the card.

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Call for Proposals: FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-2

This call is dedicated to a specific SME innovation initiative designed to encourage stronger SME efforts towards research and innovation. SMEs need to have a leading or coordinating role in the consortium and 50 % of EU funding requested going to SMEs or SMEs joint venture.

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Speeding Up Diagnoses

syngo®.via (1) helps reduce the time from admission to an emergency ward to diagnosis in cardiac patients. At Innsbruck University Hospital in Innsbruck, Austria, radiologists and patients benefit from the advances in radiology.

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Med-e-Tel 2012: 10th Edition of the International Telemedicine and eHealth Forum

18 - 20 April 2012, Luxembourg.
The 2012 edition of the Med-e-Tel marks the 10th anniversary edition of the event which started out in 2002 under the name "Telemedicine & Telecare International Trade Fair" and grew out to become the most international Telemedicine and eHealth networking event around the world, bringing together every year in Luxembourg healthcare providers, industry representatives, policy makers and researchers from over 50 countries around the world.

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Improved Patient Care and Saved Time with Digital Pen and Paper Technology

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is improving patient care by speeding up the process of patient feedback after implementing a new Digital Pen and Paper solution from technology innovator Anoto and UK partner Ubisys.

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Siemens Expands its Angiography Systems

Siemens Healthcare has integrated the navigation technology MediGuide from St. Jude Medical into its Artis zee angiography systems. By means of magnetic targeting, MediGuide locates the catheter during cardiac interventions and projects its precise position in real-time on a previously acquired fluoroscopy image of the patient.

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Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

The proposed Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, which will be introduced post-2013, will build upon the successes of the current Framework Programme for Research (FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

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