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"Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs" to Boost Creation of Small Enterprises

Are you thinking about setting up your own business or are you already a successful entrepreneur? The Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs exchange scheme offers an excellent opportunity for new entrepreneurs to acquire relevant skills for managing a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME).

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AHIMA Hosts Cross-Border Health Information Management Event

AHIMA held in Brussels its official event entitled a "Snapshot on Cross-border Health Information Management". Stakeholders from Europe and around the world met at the Stanhope hotel to exchange ideas on the international dimension of health information management and its impact on the quality of healthcare.

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Achieving Efficiency Improvements in the Health Sector through the Implementation of Information and Communication Technologies

This report presents an analysis of OECD countries' efforts to implement information and communication technologies (ICTs) in health care systems. It provides advice on the range of policy options, conditions and practices that policy makers can adapt to their own national circumstances to accelerate adoption and effective use of these technologies.

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Philips Strengthens Sleep Diagnostic Portfolio through the Acquisition of Auto-Scoring Business

Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) has acquired the Somnolyzer 24 x 7 automated scoring solutions business of the Siesta Group in Vienna. This FDA-cleared solution will help improve the productivity of sleep centers and is based on the most advanced and clinically validated automated-scoring technology on the market. The Siesta Group is a research and clinical software company specializing in polysomnography scoring* solutions for sleep centers.

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iSOFT Achieves Major Milestones in the Netherlands

iSOFT has completed the implementation of Lorenzo 3.5 across all surgical departments at St Jansdal Hospital, Netherlands, with the latest release providing tools for patient management, results reporting, requesting and advanced clinical data capture, for 96 nurses and ten surgeons currently.

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New 2010 Patient Bedside Terminal Range on Show at World of Health IT Exhibition

JAOtech will be showing its new look 2010 range of patient bedside Smart Terminals on stand 728 at the World of Health IT 2010 (WoHIT) conference and exhibition, being held in Barcelona, from 15th to 18th March 2010.

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Online Open Forum on ICT Standardization and eHealth

25 February 2010, 16:00-20:00 GMT.
Governments around the world hope that eHealth can contribute to increased safety, choice and productivity in the health care sector. While this overriding hopes are common, the approaches to eHealth differ.

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PREVE - Identifying ICT Research Directions for Disease Prevention

PREVE project's mission is to analyse and present prerequisites, knowledge foundation, and a coherent 'plan of action' for ICT research directions targeting the prevention of diseases and the preservation of health - tailored to the individual citizen.

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iSOFT Boosts Solutions Portfolio with UltraGenda Acquisition

Australia's largest listed health information technology company, acquired Belgium-based health IT company UltraGenda BV for as much as $16 million (€10.7 million) as part of the company's strategy of boosting its portfolio of innovative solutions and driving additional sales through bolt-on acquisitions.

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ICT 2010: Call for Exhibit Proposals

27-29 September 2010, Brussels.
The ICT 2010 Exhibition will cover, in over 5000 square meters, Europe's latest cutting edge ICT research results. The aim of the exhibition is to showcase the latest work and concrete results in upstream ICT as well as close-to-market projects.

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