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empirica wins European Union Project "Reform of Financing Secondary Healthcare" in Bosnia and Herzegovina

"Reform of Financing Secondary Healthcare in Bosnia and Herzegovina" is a project to enhance the efficiency of health care services in Bosnia and Herzegovina by implementing a system of provider payments that would create incentives for cost containment and improve provider performance.

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Finland's HUS Hospital District Upgrades and Extends Existing Agfa HealthCare PACS

Agfa HealthCare announces that the HUS (The hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa) will implement Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX 6.5 Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) at its HUS-Röntgen medical imaging centers.

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Philips and NEC Team-Up in Digital Pathology

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced the signing of an agreement under which the two companies will jointly develop and market highly integrated digital pathology solutions.

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Enabling Smart Integrated Care: Recommendations for Fostering Greater Interoperability of Personal Health Systems

The final goal of promoting interoperability in general, and for Personal Health Systems (PHS) in particular, is to contribute to integrated care. This will be supported through comprehensive, easy and collaborative access to and sharing of a patient's health data for all authorised health professionals, family carers and ultimately the patient itself. Thus they will gain managed access to essential health information about patients, subject to the patients' consent.

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Philips and Corindus Join Forces in the Field of Advanced Robotic-Assisted Systems

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and Corindus Inc. announced an alliance agreement to add Corindus' robotic-assisted system for the minimally invasive treatment of obstructed coronary arteries (also known as percutaneous coronary interventions) to Philips' interventional cardiology solutions.

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Lack of Interoperability Limits Personal Health Solutions

Failure to address interoperability has been identified as a major challenge for the growing personal health solutions market, states the conclusions of the SmartPersonalHealth project report published today.

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Nervecentre Workforce Management Software Eradicates Delays in 'Hospital @ Night' Emergency Care System

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) is reporting major benefits from a new innovative IT solution which has significantly improved patient safety, transformed workforce planning and productivity and increased clinical governance.

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Successful Strategies for Healthcare Security & Privacy

Improving the quality and reducing the cost of patient care depends on digitizing healthcare workflows and moving to electronic patient records. These records are a type of sensitive information, also referred to as electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI). Sensitive information in electronic form presents new vulnerabilities compared to paper-based equivalents.

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President of Canada Health Infoway to Deliver Keynote at Global E-Health Forum 2011

11 - 13 October 2011, Hamburg, Germany.
The Global E-Health Forum announced Richard C. Alvarez, President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada Health Infoway as one of the keynote speakers at this year's conference.

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Catholic Hospital at Erfurt Goes Live with iSOFT Portal

The catholic hospital St Johann Nepomuk at Erfurt, Germany, is the latest iSOFT customer to install its new portal under moves to strengthen ties with local GPs, increase efficiency of treatment processes and cut costs by maximizing existing resources.

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