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Nottingham University Hospitals selects Medway Maternity from System C

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has selected System C's Medway Maternity software to handle over 10,000 births a year. The Trust is one of the largest acute teaching trusts in the country, providing services to over 2.5 million residents in Nottingham and its surrounding communities.

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SCM Microsystems Wins Further Orders for Over 10,000 German eHealth Terminals

SCM Microsystems, a leading provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), has received its first orders for 10,000 eHealth terminals to support the relaunch of the electronic health card program in Germany.

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Transforming Healthcare Through Social Media

Social media has moved beyond being a tool for young individuals to share their private lives (pictures, messages) to fostering serious discussion on technology and business. Increasingly driven by regulatory pressures, the need "get it right the first time" and minimize costs remains a concern in the healthcare industry. Customer feedback to improve business has thus become very important.

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Philips Installs World-First FlexMove Option for Hybrid OR

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced the opening of the world's first Hybrid OR with new FlexMove - a ceiling-mounted option for the Allura Xper X-ray system, designed to optimize workflow in Hybrid ORs - at the University Hospital Zϋrich (UniversitätsSpital Zürich, USZ), Switzerland.

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iSOFT Wins FT Deutschland Award for Ansbach Project

iSOFT has won a Financial Times Deutschland award for a telehealth project at the Landkreis Ansbach hospital that was judged one of the top ten healthcare IT projects in Germany.

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Philips IntelliSpace Event Management Solution Offers Enhanced Platform for Critical Patient Alerts

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced the release of IntelliSpace Event Management, an alert notification solution that provides an enhanced platform with expanded clinical support to manage disparate care system alerts.

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New Adverse Incident Reporting System to Reduce Risk of Error and Improve Patient Safety in Denmark

In April 2011, an adverse incident reporting system that operates in Denmark's primary care service will be extended to include secondary care as well. The system, which is being implemented by CSC Healthcare EMEA, has covered primary care since September 2010.

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DMF Systems Launch their Electronic Referral GP Portal

The current process of referring patients for specialty or follow-up care is a notably disjointed process. Typically, all participants in the referrals process must rely on paper, telephone calls and faxes for communication and coordination.

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Unique Research Alliance Expands Collaboration Opportunities

The UK research community will soon have access to world-class medical imaging facilities in London with the signing of an agreement between an alliance of leading London-based universities, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).

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Commission Seeks Views on Improving Healthcare by Applying ICT (eHealth)

The European Commission is seeking citizens' and other interested parties' views on how the EU can help to deliver widespread benefits to the quality and efficiency of healthcare by applying information and communication technologies (ICT) (so-called 'eHealth').

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