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EHealth Insider Launches Chief Clinical Information Officer Campaign

EHealth Insider, the online UK NHS IT and information management news service, has launched a major campaign calling for every NHS provider organisation to consider appointing a clinician to act as their clinical information champion.

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Philips and ROSATOM to Develop Nuclear Medicine Industry Ecosystem in Russia

Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM and Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) have announced their intention to develop a nuclear medicine industry ecosystem in Russia. Nuclear medicine is an important medical imaging technique used to diagnose and stage cancer.

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VPH Institute First General Assembly

The VPH Institute invites you to attend the first General Assembly meeting, scheduled for September 28th 2011 in Barcelona, by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Everybody is welcome to participate to express their support to this new initiative.

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mHealth: New Horizons for Health through Mobile Technologies

Global Observatory for eHealth series - Volume 3.
Only five years ago who would have imagined that today a woman in sub-Saharan Africa could use a mobile phone to access health information essential to bringing her pregnancy safely to term? Mobile phones are now the most widely used communication technology in the world. They continue to spread at an exponential rate - particularly in developing countries. This expansion provides unprecedented opportunities to apply mobile technology for health.

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Doctors 2.0 & You Conference

22 - 23 June 2011, Paris, France.
Cité Universitaire Internationale, will be the site of a first-time international conference assembling participants from 22 countries. 49 healthcare social media speakers at Doctors 2.0™ & You, will lead the debate on how doctors do and don't use social media, mobile applications, and Web 2.0 tools to connect with patients and colleagues.

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Hospital-Wide Roll-Out of iSOFT Lorenzo Nursing at St Jansdal

Lorenzo Nursing, the iSOFT Lorenzo Enterprise solution for nurses, went live on another surgical ward at the St Jansdal hospital in Harderwijk, the Netherlands. This go-live follows the successful completion of a pilot on the surgical ward 1 West, and signifies the starting point for the roll-out of Lorenzo Nursing on all surgical and medical wards at St Jansdal.

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Philips Expands its Capabilities in Imaging Equipment Services with the Acquisition of AllParts Medical

Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) has acquired AllParts Medical, a privately owned US-based provider of imaging equipment parts and training. The acquisition supports Philips' commitment to provide the imaging market with the highest quality service parts, training programs and technical support.

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2012 World of Health IT Call for Papers

7 - 9 May 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The 2012 World of Health IT will take place in conjunction with eHealth Week 2012 and Programme Advisory Committee has opened the Call for Papers. New for 2012, submissions must specifically address one of the 7 session themes selected below.

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The VPHI Institute is Fully Operational

The Virtual Physiological Human Institute for Integrative Biomedical Research, in short VPH Institute, was recently established as an international non-profit organisation incorporated in Belgium and it is now ready to operate and to start the membership campaign.

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Health 2.0 Europe 2011 - Registration is Now Open

27 - 28 October 2011, Berlin, Germany.
Health 2.0 Europe integrates the best of European web/mobile based technologies, and compares, contrasts and contextualizes them with leading examples of Health 2.0 from around the world.

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