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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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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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