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Elsevier acquires Collexis

Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of assets from Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software.

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European Commission Welcomes Launch of Supercomputing Infrastructure for European Researchers

The European Commission welcomed the launch of a €500 million initiative which boosts European supercomputer capacities and opens them up to scientists across Europe. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) unites the European Commission and 20 countries across Europe in a unique initiative which will enable researchers to use super fast computers located in other countries to make up to 1000 trillion calculations per second for their research projects.

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A New Interactive Platform on European Health Research

A new online platform named HealthCompetence.eu has been presented at the Information day on FP7 Health Research organised by the European Commission. This new platform includes all projects related to life science and health supported by the European Commission since 2004. Far from being a static database, it aims to present the projects' latest results in terms of technology offers, patents and publications.

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Agfa HealthCare Invites 150 Top-Level Customers to an Exclusive Healthcare Seminar

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, is attending the World Expo Shanghai in China, where it is hosting a special customer event on June 9th.

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CSC Announces First NHS Acute Trust Goes Live with Lorenzo Release 1.9

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 went live on June 1, 2010 at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, with the implementation completed on June 3, 2010.

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Second VPH Industry Day

8-9 September 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
The second VPH Industry Day, organised by the European Network of Excellence for the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH), aims to increase the awareness amongst European Industry of the vision, the concepts, and the concrete technological achievements of VPH-related research.

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Telehealth Revolution Set to Benefit more North Yorkshire Patients

NHS North Yorkshire and York unveiled plans to purchase a further 2,000 Telehealth systems to support patients living with long term health conditions in the area - making it the largest scale Telehealth programme in the UK.

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Versatile Reporting Supports Healthcare Management

Active utilization of data saved in patient information systems is an essential part of developing healthcare operations. Together with Tieto, the Central Hospital of Central Ostrobothnia (Finland) has actively developed a new generation reporting tool as a part of Tieto's Effica system.

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Health IT Leadership Summit

29 September - 1 October 2010, Rome, Italy.
The HIMSS Europe Health IT Leadership Summit is a new, executive level forum for education, collaboration and dialogue. Top leaders from healthcare, IT and government will convene to help advance the quality of healthcare delivery.

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European High-Level Panel Consults on ICT Solutions to Help Elderly to Live More Independently

A consultation inviting citizens, businesses and researchers to share ideas on how best to use information and communications technologies (ICTs) to help older Europeans live more independently, and more generally to establish new ways to put ICTs at the service of the most vulnerable members of society, has been launched by a high-level panel established to advise the European Commission on the functioning of the Ambient Assisted Living joint programme (AAL JP).

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