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conhIT 2010 - Improving Operating Conditions with IT

20-22 April 2010, Berlin, Germany.
Organised by the German Association of the Healthcare IT Industry (VHitG) and Messe Berlin, this year conhIT 2010 is cooperating with the 127th Congress of the German Society for Surgery which takes place at the same time. The use of modern IT solutions in surgery is impressive proof that IT-based solutions in medicine make life easier not just for financial controllers and administrative heads in hospitals.

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Cornwall Mainstreams Telehealth Solutions Following Successful Department of Health Pilot

NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, one of the Department of Health's three national Whole System Demonstrator pilot sites, will continue to deliver telehealthcare services and make it available to more patients in the Cornwall region.

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IBM Launches Global Entrepreneur Initiative to Help Start-Ups

In today's challenging economic environment, technology start-ups can struggle to bring new ideas to market. In response, IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened its resources to these companies in a new initiative to help this next generation of entrepreneurs capture emerging business opportunities in fast-growing industries such as energy and utilities, health care, telecommunications and government.

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Moving Beyond EMRs to Sustainable Business Models for Telecare

14-16 April 2010, Luxembourg.
Dr. Mark Blatt, Global Director of Health Industry Solutions for Intel's Digital Health Group will present his views on sustainable business models for telecare/telehealth and on telemedicine as the preferred model of care for the 21st century at Med-e-Tel 2010.

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Establishing the European Virtual Physiological Human Institute

To provide strong support for both the European Union Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) research initiative and the global "Physiome" community, the process to establish a European VPH Institute has now officially started.

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Agfa HealthCare Deploys CollabNet TeamForge

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, and CollabNet®, the leader in Agile application lifecycle management (Agile ALM) in the Cloud, announced today that Agfa HealthCare has deployed CollabNet TeamForge™ to support more than 200 major software development projects around the globe.

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conhIT 2010 - Industry Fair, Congress, Academy and Networking

From 20 to 22 April 2010 all the activities on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds will be focused on the subject of IT in the healthcare system. All the main players will be meeting at "conhIT - Connecting Healthcare IT", Europe's largest and most comprehensive event for this sector, where they can learn about the latest developments in the industry, make contacts and obtain high level advanced training.

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Agfa HealthCare – Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results

Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased 2.8 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. Excluding currency effects, revenue increased slightly by 0.3 percent. The fourth quarter traditionally is Agfa HealthCare's strongest quarter of the year.

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The First Health and Social Care Link Goes Live

System C Healthcare, Microsoft®, Orion Health and Liquidlogic have joined forces to produce the first health and social care link under NHS Connecting for Health's (CfH) new standards for systems integration.

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£44 Million IT System for Paper-Free NHS Boards Across Scotland

A new £44 million IT system which will pave the way for a paper-free NHS was launched. The Patient Management System (PMS) will be used to streamline in-patient and out-patient bookings, manage waiting lists, order tests and report test results.

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