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Capita's Electronic Health Records Conference

5 May 2011, London, United Kingdom.
Electronic Health Records are a major focus of the Coalition's Liberating the NHS: An Information Revolution strategic review on information management across health and social care.

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Video Pitch Doctors 2.0 & You

22 - 23 June 2011, Paris, France.
Doctors 2.0™ & You is the first conference in Europe devoted to how today's doctors use social media and Web 2.0 tools to connect with patients, colleagues, pharma, payers and hospitals, will be held on June 22-23, 2011 at the Cité Universitaire Internationale in Paris, France.

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Registration is Open for the Largest pan-European eHealth Conference & Exhibition

10 - 12 May 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
The Hungarian Presidency of the EU is preparing to host the largest pan-European eHealth conference: eHealth week 2011 - which will focus on achieving maximum benefit in an age of austerity.

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Call for Papers: IADIS International Conference e-Health 2011

20 - 22 July 2011, Rome, Italy.
IADIS International Conference e-Health 2011 aims to draw together information systems, practitioners and management experts from all quadrants involved in developing computer technology to improve healthcare quality.

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Russian Hospitals Digitize Medical Information, Improve Access to Patient Data with IBM Technology

IBM announced that multiple hospitals throughout Russia have switched from paper-based medical systems to a new solution from IBM and Complex Medical Information Systems (C-MIS) to provide fast electronic medical record exchange and unified access to many types of healthcare data,

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Success Stories: The Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human

Osteoporosis is becoming one of the most serious diseases for the European ageing population: nearly four million osteoporotic bone fractures cost the European health system more than €30 billion per year, and kill 250,000 elders for related complications; this figure could double by 2050.

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ATLAS - eHealth Country Profiles

Global Observatory for eHealth series - Volume 1
This publication presents data on the 114 WHO Member States that participated in the 2009 global survey on eHealth. Intended as a reference to the state of eHealth development in Member States, the publication highlights selected indicators in the form of country profiles. The objectives of the country profiles are to: describe the current status of the use of ICT for health in Member States; and provide information concerning the progress of eHealth applications in these countries.

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Smart Phones and Remote Controls Help Elderly and Disabled to Manage their Homes

With €2.7 million of EU funding, researchers from the Czech Republic, Germany, Portugal, Spain and Sweden have developed a solution to give elderly and disabled people easier control over the various electronic appliances and services in their homes using their mobile phone or other devices.

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Microsoft and Samsung Unveil the Next Generation of Surface

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT") unveiled the next generation of the Microsoft Surface experience featuring PixelSense technology, which gives LCD panels the power to see without the use of cameras.

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Philips Strengthens Home Healthcare Portfolio

Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) has acquired substantially all of the assets of medSage Technologies LLC, a leading provider of patient interaction and management applications ("medSage Technologies").

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