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Giraff Wins AAL Forum's Prestigious "Most Promising" Award

The Swedish company Giraff Technologies and the EU AAL ExCITE-project received top honors at the annual AAL Forum, being named the "most promising" innovation of the year out of nearly 100 products and projects. The three criteria for the award were innovation, potential to improve the quality of life for older adults and market potential.

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Catalogue of Projects: Ambient Assisted Living

The Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme (AAL JP) celebrates its third year of activity and we want to celebrate this event with the publication of this catalogue to showcase the objectives and progress made by the funded projects. Over the past three years, we worked together with the 23 Partner Countries (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Israel, Norway and Switzerland) and the European Commission to ensure continuity and quality of our project work.

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Final Programme for Health 2.0 Europe 2011 is Online Now

27 - 28 October 2011, Berlin, Germany.
The conference agenda is structured to cover the state of play and recent changes in the landscape for the European Health 2.0 industry; advances in search & content and their convergence with online communities; new tools to connect patients, doctors and healthcare stakeholders; and the use of web and mobile technologies to manage chronic conditions, motivate behavior changes and promote wellness.

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Philips Opens Hospital Research Area to Develop Innovative Healing Environments

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is stepping up its healthcare research into healing environments by opening a dedicated research facility at its Eindhoven-based Research Laboratories.

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Opinion Article: Cardiac Diagnostics in Practice Puts Patients' Best Interests at Heart

By Joshua Rowe, CEO of Broomwell Healthwatch.
Imagine that you start to experience unfamiliar chest pains. What would you do? Like most people, you're likely to call or visit your GP surgery and ask for an emergency appointment.

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Basil Strategies and Webicina partner on Doctors 2.0 & You Social Media Platform

Denise Silber, founder of Basil Strategies, and Dr. Bertalan Mesko, founder of Webicina.com, have announced the new partnership of their two respective organizations with the launch of an original on-line Healthcare Social Media resource.

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Independent Conference Pre-Vetting System for the European Medical Technology Industry

Eucomed, the European medical technology industry association, will launch in early 2012 a conference pre-vetting system to review and approve third-party educational conferences and congresses in accordance with the ethical rules established in the Eucomed Code of Ethical Business Practice.

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NHS Wales Enhances Software Application Testing

Healthcare IT advisor and integrator Simpl creates a software application development testing framework for Informing Healthcare, the NHS technology programme in Wales. Now in use by a six-strong team, the testing framework refines and improves Informing Healthcare's previous application testing procedures and defines a consistent approach to in-house application testing across the organisation.

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NHS Plymouth Introduces Tunstall's Telehealth Solutions

NHS Plymouth has partnered with Tunstall to implement a telehealth programme that will support the management of long-term conditions (LTCs) for patients in Plymouth.

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Agfa HealthCare Shows its Most Comprehensive Digital Radiography Portfolio at JFR 2011

At the Journées Françaises de Radiologie (JFR) 2011, Agfa HealthCare is showing its most comprehensive digital radiography portfolio ever. These solutions address a broad diversity of imaging needs, delivering productivity and workflow improvement benefits, combined with very high image quality.

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