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GE Healthcare Introduces Online Education for Nurses

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric, announced today a cost-effective, subscription-based library of online courses for nurses to learn and receive continuing education credit in clinical, leadership and development to help improve patient outcomes and in some cases lower costs.

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Toumaz Sensium Platform Monitors Health of Transantarctic Expedition Team

Toumaz, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless telemetry technologies for medical monitoring and internet-connected consumer devices, announces that Sensium™-enabled devices are being used to monitor the health status of a team of explorers and scientists involved in a record-breaking expedition across the Antarctic.

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Trends in eHealth

eHealth is a relatively recent healthcare practice that leverages electronic processes and communication to manage healthcare information. eHealth involves simplifying processes related to information, communication and transactions within and between healthcare institutions and professionals by utilizing information and telecommunications technologies.

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Turkey Healthcare Infrastructure Investment & Finance Summit 2011

24 - 25 February 2011, Istanbul, Turkey.
The Turkish health system is in transition. As a part of the government's Health Transformation Programme, institutional and organizational reforms are underway that aim to assure universal access to health insurance and health services.

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Advanced Patient Monitoring for General Care Departments in Hospitals

Already a market leader in patient monitoring solutions for critical care settings in hospitals, Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) will introduce IntelliVue Guardian Solutions a comprehensive range of monitoring solutions designed specifically for hospital-based general care settings.

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The UK Pioneers E-healthcare Adoption with Government Support

The United Kingdom has been the pioneer in introducing e-healthcare initiatives among major Western European countries, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan analysis. The UK government has successfully implemented several nationwide e-health projects with the support of British Telecom and other industry stakeholders.

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Carestream Health Introduces New Cloud-Based Service

Carestream Health launched a new addition to its portfolio of cloud-based CARESTREAM eHealth Managed Services (eMS). The new eHealth portal service enables healthcare providers that use the company's remote eHealth Archive Services to allow access to that data by any authorized user anywhere in the world through a simple Internet connection.

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Electronic Healthcare Solutions

The health sector holds an important place in our societies, as evidenced by funds appropriated to it, the role the state plays, and the large number of associated parties with various functions that it connects. Because medical advances have resulted in increased life expectancies, and because citizens are being actively encouraged to take personal responsibility for their health, the number of people in need of medical care has increased.

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Commission Launches Consultation on Active & Healthy Ageing

The European Commission is seeking the views of public and private organisations, companies and individual citizens on how Europe could scale up innovation to meet the challenges of the ageing population in Europe, and in particular on a pilot European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on active and healthy ageing, as set out in the Innovation Union Flagship Initiative, presented on 6 October by Maire Geoghegan Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science and Antonio Tajani, Vice-President for Industry and Entrepreneurship.

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Med-e-Tel 2011 Call for Abstracts Open Through December 10, 2010

6 - 8 April 2011, Luxembourg.
Join Med-e-Tel 2011 and actively participate in the educational and information program of seminars, workshops, demonstrations and interactive panel discussions on eHealth, Telemedicine and ICT applications in medicine, health and social care.

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