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PORTFASTFLU - Potrable and Automated Test for Fast Detection and Surveillance of Influenza

PORTFASTFLU is a €3.8 million, European Union FP7 funded project which aims to develop and validate a rapid diagnostic system for influenza that will be used for surveillance and early detection of influenza, and as a point-of-care tool in developed and developing countries.

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Computerised Play Platform for Elderly People

Three years ago, researchers at the EU-funded ElderGames project set out to create a high-tech play platform specifically for the elderly - the first designed to provide cognitive and social stimulation, and to allow early detection of cognitive decline.

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IBM Helps Government of Slovenia to Build Smart Health Insurance System

The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia will roll out a new electronic health insurance card system based on IBM (NYSE: IBM) technology across the country. The new system enables healthcare providers to instantly and accurately check a patient's health insurance status and allows for health claims to be processed online.

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Carestream Health Solutions Support Mammography Imaging in Belgium

Carestream Health has won three contracts for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) to view, manage and store digital mammography images for healthcare initiatives in the French-speaking region of Belgium. The PACS will meet the needs of a regional programme for mammography screening, an extended provincial programme for mammography screening within a mobile environment and a private radiology clinic.

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eHealth Benchmarking - Final Report

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Ingo Meyer, Tobias Hüsing, Maike Didero, Werner B. Korte
This report presents the results of the eHealth Benchmarking study carried out by empirica on behalf of the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media. The study aimed to collate and analyse existing eHealth monitoring and benchmarking sources in order to identify best practice in data gathering and to develop a framework for an EU-wide eHealth Benchmarking approach.

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CompuGROUP Increases Revenue by 36 Percent in the First Quarter of 2009

In the first three months of the business year 2009, CompuGROUP Holding AG, one of the leading e-Health providers worldwide, has increased its group-wide sales by 36 percent compared to the same period in the previous year. The operating profit decreased from EUR 12.8 million in 2008 down to EUR 11.9 million, mainly because of acquisition related restructuring processes and regulatory implications.

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Details of First Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Projects Released

The European Commission has released details of the first projects to receive support under the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Joint Technology Initiative (JTI). The 15 projects will share a EUR 246 million funding pot. EUR 110 million of this will come from the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), while the pharmaceutical industry will provide the remaining EUR 136 million through in kind contributions (e.g. staff, laboratory facilities, materials and clinical research).

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Sleep Deprivation: a Health Hazard Yet to be Taken Seriously

A new survey released by Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) shows that the average manager is sleeping 19% less than the recommended amount of eight hours a night. The survey, conducted in five countries around the globe, showed that 40% of those questioned blame the state of the world economy as the major reason for their lack of sleep.

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The Living Human Digital Library Project's Results

The Living Human Digital Library Project (LHDL) is a grass-roots initiative aimed at developing an in silico model of the human neuromusculoskeletal system that can predict how mechanical forces are exchanged internally and externally, from the whole body down to the protein level, consistently with scope of the European Virtual Physiological Human initiative.

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SCM Microsystems' Upgradable Mobile Terminal eHealth500 Receives Certification

SCM Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMM; Prime Standard, SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, today announced that its eHeatlh500 mobile terminal is one of the first upgradeable mobile devices to receive the required certification for use with the new eHealth cards in stage 2 of the introduction of the electronic health card in Germany.

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