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Global Telemedicine and eHealth Initiatives this Week at Med-e-Tel 2010

14-16 April 2010, Luxembourg.
Med-e-Tel 2010 is just around the corner, taking place this week at the Luxexpo Exhibition and Congress Center in Luxembourg.

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Call For An Industrial Partner - TOBI Project

The following project currently active in the Seventh Framework program of the European Community for research area and to innovation (2007-2013) requires the participation of a new partner to carry out certain tasks within the project. Please note that the Seventh Framework program offers part-funding not full-funding of research activities.

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Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications in the European Union

The adoption of the EU electronic communications reform package in November 2009 paved the way towards strengthening the European electronic communications market by revising rules to ensure more effective competition and better rights for consumers. Much has been accomplished already: the market has become more competitive, generating investment, innovation and growth in all 27 EU Member States.

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Med-e-Tel 2010 - Annual, International Telemedicine and eHealth Forum

The 8th edition of Med-e-Tel, the International eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT Forum, will take place on 14-16 April 2010 at Luxexpo, the Luxembourg Exhibition and Congress Center.

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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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