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Final Agenda and Sponsorship Deadline for Health 2.0 Europe

6-7 April 2010, Paris, France.
Health 2.0 Europe will be a unique conference, featuring the three integral components of Health 2.0 in a unique format where leading examples of Health 2.0 in North America will be compared and contextualized with the latest in European innovation.

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Philips and VU Medical Center Amsterdam Sign Long Term Research Agreement

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and the VU University Medical Center (VUmc, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) have signed an agreement to jointly research new multi-modality imaging solutions aimed at improving the early detection and treatment of diseases such as cancer and neurological and cardiovascular diseases.

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iSOFT's Ideaworks Netherlands Symposium Drives Innovative Thinking

iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world's largest healthcare technology companies, enhanced its reputation as a global technology thought leader at its first Ideaworks for Healthcare symposium in the Netherlands, where some of the industry's leading thinkers in innovation debated the future of healthcare IT.

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German Federal Minister of Health to Open TeleHealth at CeBIT 2010

The Federal Minister of Health, Dr. Philipp Rösler, will be the official patron of TeleHealth, the flagship fair for computerized medicine taking place under the umbrella of CeBIT 2010. In addition, Dr. Rösler will officially open TeleHealth on 2 March together with high-ranking industry representatives.

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COCIR Launches Telemedicine ToolKit

Over the past decade, COCIR has become recognised as the association representing the healthcare IT industry in Europe and has gained considerable knowledge on eHealth, including on crucial aspects such as interoperability, electronic health records and telemedicine.

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Agfa HealthCare and Montpellier CHRU in France Announce Strategic Partnership for ORBIS

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has signed an agreement with Montpellier CHRU for the installation of its leading Hospital/Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) ORBIS across its seven facilities.

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Opinion Article: It is Time for the Hospital Doctor to Embrace IT

By Dr. Paul Shannon FRCA MBA, Consultant Anaesthetist, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Medical Director, CSC UK Healthcare.

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A Rapid Image Analysis Method to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a method for analysing MR images in just a few minutes when diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. The accuracy of the analysis is comparable to manual measurements made by skilled professionals, which are currently considered the most reliable method for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease.

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iSOFT Announces Lorenzo for the iPhone

Australia's largest listed health information technology company, announced that it is bringing its Lorenzo strategic healthcare solution to Apple's iPhone for medical professionals to access scans, x-rays and patients records via a prototype application due for release later this year.

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Healthcare IT Company EMIS Group Announces Intention to Float on AIM

EMIS Group Limited ("EMIS" or "the Group"), the UK's leading supplier of healthcare software and related services to GPs, has announced its intention to float on AIM via a placing of its shares.

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