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EMRAM Award Winners Announced

Three leading European hospitals won the Stage 6 HIMSS Europe EMRAM awards at a ceremony in Rome. The award is given to European hospitals that represent best practices in implementation of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR).

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White Paper 'Could Hit Patient Care'

More than half of NHS staff working for strategic health authorities and primary care trusts believe the government's shakeup of the health service could hit patient care and few of them believe the reorganisation will be worth it, according to a new poll.

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Telehealth Solutions Helps the Hardest to Reach

Telehealth Solutions' CardioPod is playing a crucial role in a socially inclusive health check scheme, spearheaded by NHS Kensington & Chelsea. The Trust's 'Health Check Bus' provides quick and convenient NHS Health Checks, using the portable CardioPod, wherever and whenever they are needed.

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Barts and The London NHS Trust to Implement New Dental Clinical Information System

The Dental Institute, which is part of Barts and the London (BLT) NHS Trust have selected AxSys Technology as their preferred supplier to deliver Excelicare as the clinical information system for its dental hospital and school. The project is being funded by a DoH grant and is expected to take approximately 12 months to implement.

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European Commission Announces €780 Million Boost for Strategic ICT Research

The European Commission has announced one of the biggest calls ever for information and communications technology (ICT) research proposals under the EU's research framework programmes. The announcement was made at Europe's largest event for ICT research and innovation, ICT 2010-Digitally Driven.

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BridgeHead Software Wins Contract with The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has chosen BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization™ company, to provide healthcare data and storage management solutions as it implements plans around improving operational efficiency, cost savings and patient care.

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iPLATO Healthcare Selected to Tech Media Invest Top 100

Europe Unlimited, Europe's leading network connecting high-tech entrepreneurs to investors and strategic partners through specialised events, revealed its 2010 Tech Media Invest Top 100 list, in association with The Guardian, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Kemp Little.

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Brussels Showcase for Intelligent Robots, Green Homes, Virtual Reality and Much More

More than 100 groundbreaking information and communication technology (ICT) research projects funded by the EU are being showcased at the "ICT 2010-Digitally Driven" conference and exhibition in Brussels Expo from 27 to 29 September. The event, organised every two years by the European Commission and this year hosted by the Belgian Presidency of the EU's Council of Ministers, brings together researchers, businesses and policy makers to show the latest ICT advances.

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Kent and Medway Cancer Network and West Kent PCT Introduce Video Networks

Kent and Medway Cancer Network and West Kent PCT are working in parallel to introduce new video networks, which will enable specialists and staff from many parts of the NHS to consult on cancer care and share High Definition images such as patients' MRI scans at the desktop.

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Tieto's Healthcare Mobile Solution for Operation Planning

Tieto's existing operation planning tool Provisio has been used as the basis for its new prototype, called iProvisio. The system is a completely digital tool covering every aspect of patient treatment associated with operations.

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