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NHS Tower Hamlets Uses Text Messaging to Boost Attendance Rate for Cervical Screening

Eligible patients in NHS Tower Hamlets will soon be benefiting from receiving SMS invitations for cervical screening from their GP surgeries. Free to receive for the patient, the reminder service is fully funded by the PCT.

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EMIS Acquires Majority Stake in Pharmacy Software Company Rx Systems Limited

EMIS Group plc (AIM: EMIS), the UK's leading supplier of healthcare software to GPs, today announces that it has acquired 78.9% of the issued share capital of Rx Systems Limited ("RX"), a pharmacy software and services company, for a total consideration of up to £9.95 million.

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New Release of InterSystems TrakCare Extends Web-based Healthcare Information System

InterSystems announced the 2010 version of InterSystems TrakCare™. This release of the world's leading Web-based healthcare information system further empowers clinicians and administrators with significant enhancements including:

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First example of Green+ Hospitals in Germany

The Ethianum in Heidelberg is one of the first clinics in Germany to align itself consistently according to sustainability criteria, thus making it a hospital in keeping with the spirit of Siemens' Green+ Hospital Program.

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BridgeHead Software Appoints New EMEA Sales Director

BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, has announced the appointment of Tony Tomkys to head up their sales operation in EMEA. In his new role as Director of Sales for EMEA, Tomkys aims to further increase BridgeHead's UK customer footprint in the NHS and private healthcare sector as well as driving pan-European initiatives.

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New Electronic Patient Record Supports Department of Health and Pension's Pathways to Work Programme

Tees Valley Condition Management Programme (CMP) has implemented a new electronic patient record (EPR) system based on AxSys Technology's Excelicare solution. The EPR, which replaces a manual system, has been designed to support all aspects of patient administration and medical management.

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Philips Joins New Venture Capital Fund to Foster Innovation in Healthcare

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced that it has joined Gilde Healthcare III - a new venture capital fund focusing on innovative early and growth stage healthcare technology companies in Europe and the USA that are active in developing and commercializing new patient-centric healthcare solutions, medical technologies and therapeutics.

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EU Funded WOUNDMONITOR Helps Pinpoint Bacteria and Speed Up Healing

More than 4000 people die in the EU each year because of accidents caused by fire and many thousands more are hospitalised to receive treatment for burns. Thanks to EU-funded research, medical experts will be able to more quickly identify the harmful bacteria or fungus which may be lurking in the wounds of burn victims and causing an infection, speeding up the diagnostic and healing process by days.

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Denmark Protects Patients with CSC Adverse Incident Service

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that Denmark's National Board of Health will go live this summer with its adverse incident reporting solution. This project follows a successful EU tender last autumn to provide the National Board of Health with a web-based solution to allow patients, citizens and healthcare professionals to report adverse incidents in any part of the Danish health system.

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EU Funded Clinical Workstation Will Help Accurately Detect Breast Cancer

Each year 350,000 new cases of breast cancer are detected in the European Union, but a lack of effective technology to assist in cases that are difficult to diagnose means some cases go undetected or are incorrectly diagnosed.

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