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The 2nd Healthcare IT Exchange™

4 - 6 December 2011, UK.
In an industry driven by improving the quality of patient care, meeting regulations and controlling costs, leading Healthcare IT executives understand the strategic importance to work towards a digital era.

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Swiss ePatient Day 2011

29 Juni 2011, AMTS, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Switzerland.
The internet has now reached every age group and every last corner of society. The vast majority of patients is online, gathering the health information they need independently, networking amongst themselves, and exchanging experiences on a wide variety of treatments and service providers.

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Microsoft and Maudsley Join Up to Develop a World First for Mental Healthcare

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) and Microsoft are working in partnership to develop a personal online health record for people using mental health services.

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CSC Expands its Healthcare Division in Eastern Europe

CSC (NYSE: CSC) - a leading international IT supplier - is expanding its healthcare division in Eastern Europe to respond to the increasing need of governments in the region to modernise their healthcare IT infrastructure.

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Opinion Article: The Pathway to Well is Paved with Good Interventions

By Mr. Tom Mulhern, Founder of healthcare business intelligence solutions provider, Ardentia.
The emergence of GP consortia as the purchasers of most NHS treatment should mean that quality of care is scrutinised more closely than ever before. But from what we have seen so far, it is not a foregone conclusion that this will happen.

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Health 2.0 Europe 2011 is Accepting Speaker Submissions

Following the success of the first event in Paris in April 2010, the 2nd annual Health 2.0 Europe will showcase the best of Europe's user-generated healthcare and reconvene over 500 leaders and stakeholders in Web 2.0 for health.

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Answering the Health ICT Challenge: An Optimized Infrastructure

The number one challenge facing healthcare providers and public health and social services agencies is delivering higher quality care to more patients and citizens at a lower cost. A major obstacle is that the diverse players in the health ecosystem traditionally run their own applications in silos, with no interconnection among these applications. The result: no integrated view of how patient care and citizen health information is delivered across the health ecosystem.

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Introducing eHealthcare Patient Management Without Walls

The healthcare ecosystem is changing. The confluence of several critical factors is necessitating a comprehensive re-evaluation of healthcare systems and the delivery of care. Established healthcare systems in developed countries will need to adjust to address the predicted chronic disease epidemics and the demands of an aging population. In developing systems, healthcare modernization is a priority as we witness a rising prevalence of 'Western' diseases. The explosion of data and associated implications for data management will also need to be tackled.

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Health Informatics Scotland Conference 2011

12 - 13 September 2011, Edinburgh, UK.
Health Informatics Scotland Conference 2011 will have a great programme of international and local speakers on the themes of Patient eHealth; Medications support from eHealth; and Telehealthcare.

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First HYDMedia Systems in France Will Support the 'Zero-Paper' Hospital and Regional Hospital Networks

Agfa HealthCare announces that the Centre Hospitalier Alès-Cévennes (CH Alès) and the Centre Hospitalier Jean Monnet in Epinal (CH Jean Monnet), both in France, are extending their existing Agfa HealthCare solutions with an electronic archiving solution.

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