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Agfa HealthCare Chooses ETIAM for Normalization of Multispecialty Images and Documents

ETIAM has entered into a global distribution agreement with Agfa HealthCare for its medical integration solution: DICOM Izer. ETIAM's solutions allow for the capture and connectivity of multimedia data to the enterprise archive and Electronic Medical Records.

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Toumaz Named 'Cool Vendor' by Gartner

Toumaz, the leading provider of ultra-low power wireless infrastructure for body monitoring solutions, has been named as a 'Cool Vendor' by leading analyst firm Gartner, Inc. The 'Cool Vendors in Healthcare Providers 2010' report profiles five vendors worldwide who, in Gartner's assessment, exemplify innovative and potentially transformative solutions for global healthcare providers.

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IMS MAXIMS and Total Asset Finance Combine Operations Under New Holding Company

IMS MAXIMS, suppliers of software to the healthcare sector in the UK and Ireland, and Total Asset Finance, a specialist lease/finance business based in Warrington Cheshire, have combined their operations under a new holding company, Daresbury Services Group (DSG) which holds 100% of both IMS MAXIMS and TAF, each of whom will continue to trade independently.

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Tunstall Launches Next Generation Integrated Care Platform

Tunstall Healthcare Group, the leading provider of telecare and telehealth solutions, is today launching icp integrated care platform™, its next generation suite of telehealth solutions at the Managing Long Term Conditions conference in Harrogate.

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Call for Book Chapters: Digital Homecare - Successes And Failures

Digital Homecare, as defined in the first ICMCC book on the subject, is "a collection of services to deliver, maintain and improve care in the home environment using the latest ICT technology and devices", covering aspects like assistive technology, telemedicine, mhealth, rehabilitation, aimed at elderly, chronic patients and/or handicapped people with the objective of improving efficiency and quality of care and life.

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Challenges and Issues in Health Care Information Management

28 April 2010, Brussels, Belgium.
The European FP7 Research Project DebugIT "Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technology" is delivering first results.

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Second Call for NoE Exemplar Projects

The VPH NoE has opened the call for NoE Exemplar Projects. This call is reserved to core and general members of the NoE. However, it is possible to apply for membership at the same time as the submission of the Exemplar Project proposal.

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Call for Participation: Workshop on Procurement of eHealth Solutions

21 October 2010, Brussels, Belgium.
This workshop is an initiative of the eHealth Procurers' community, supported by the European Commission and aims to share experiences and best practices on procuring eHealth services.

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Cloud Technology to Combat Cancer

Cloud services provided over grid technology are helping to treat cancer patients, thanks to an enormous effort by European researchers working closely with industry. Cancer is Europe's second largest killer and one of the most difficult diseases to treat.

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Biomedical Research Infrastructure Goes Global

Six institutions from Canada, the Czech Republic, Austria, France and Italy have now become official partners of the Infrafrontier consortium. With the participation of Canada, the consortium will be extended beyond Europe. The aim is to create a multinational research infrastructure for the phenotyping and archiving of mouse models of human diseases.

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