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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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Tieto to Provide Finland's Most Extensive Integrated Patient Information System

The Central Finland Health Care District was the first health care district to introduce the patient information system according to the new Finnish Health Care Act. In addition to the Central Finland Health Care District, Tieto's system covers patient information for almost all of the health centres in the region.

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The National Programme for IT in the NHS: An Update on the Delivery of Care Records Systems

The rate at which electronic care records systems are being put in place across the NHS under the National Programme for IT is falling far below expectations and the core aim that every patient should have an electronic care record under the Programme will not now be achieved.

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3rd European Connected Health Leadership Summit 2011

14 - 15 June 2011, Brussels, Belgium.
The 2011 European Connected Health Leadership Summit (ECHSummit2011) will bring together healthcare professionals, researchers, world-class companies, entrepreneurs, business leaders, policy makers, health ministries and other stakeholders.

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Tunstall's Fully-Managed Telehealth Service Reaps Rewards for NHS Tameside and Glossop

NHS Tameside and Glossop has partnered with Tunstall Healthcare to deploy a fully-managed telehealth service, which will enhance care provision for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and help the Trust meet QIPP targets.

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