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Citizens' Privacy Must Become Priority in Digital Age, Says EU Commissioner Reding

In a video posted on her website, Viviane Reding, the European Union's Commissioner for Information Society and Media, said that Europeans must have the right to control how their personal information is used, and said that the Commission would take action wherever EU Member States failed to ensure that new technologies such as behavioural advertising, RFID 'smart chips' or online social networking respected this right.

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Philips Reports a 17% Decline in Sales to EUR 5.1 billion in Q1

• Global downturn in consumer and lighting markets
• Healthcare facing a very soft US hospital market; performance in emerging markets and Home Healthcare Solutions remains strong
• EBITA loss of EUR 74 million includes charges of EUR 77 million
• Reduction of fixed cost base progressing well and expected to exceed EUR 500 million annualized by the end of this year
• Rigorous management of working capital continues; cash balance increased, net debt reduced

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Educational Workshop on Molecular Imaging - How it Works and What is New?

EIBIR and the ENCITE consortium cordially invite to the educational workshop on molecular imaging with an interesting variety of existing and new methods. The workshop will take place in Prague, in May 7-8, 2009.

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Virtual Academy for Health Launched

The international consortium of the EU project has developed and launched a Virtual Academy for Health: a unique virtual space created for exchanging and gaining knowledge on European healthcare issues that fosters the use of ICT for learning, exchange, and collaboration in the healthcare sector, multiplies and furthermore consolidates dialogue arenas among policy makers, students, researchers, healthcare professionals and citizens.

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Success in a Changing Market: Innovation, Funding, Communication

24-26 June 2009, Innsbruck, Austria.
Effective and confident health management is pivotal to meeting the challenges facing Europe's health systems, under pressure from demographic change and operating in a rapidly changing market and the difficulties of global economic slowdown.

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CD-in v2, the Simple and Automatic Way to Import Media

External study import becomes an increasing challenge for some institutions where external studies outnumber those produced internally. To address this demanding import workflow ETIAM releases a new version (v2) of CD-in, a small footprint application for importing images on CDs/DVDs or other media from outside institutions, into a PACS.

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It's People, Process and Technology - in That Order

Healthcare organisations are throwing mobile technology at problems without fully considering the underlying business processes or the working conditions of the end-user. This is the key finding of a multi-country report across the healthcare sector from industry analysts Quocirca. It was commissioned by Anoto, the inventor of Digital Pen and Paper technology.

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iSOFT wins a A$3.1m Contract with Germany's Damp Holding

Australia's largest listed health information technology company, announced that iSOFT has won a two-year A$3.1 million (€1.65 million) contract with German private healthcare group Damp Holding AG for an integrated radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communications system (PACS).

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ACS and Clinical Solutions Partner to Help Local Governments

Government organisations looking to better prepare for a public health outbreak will now have access to a complete pandemic management solution thanks to a new partnership between Affiliated Computer Services (NYSE: ACS) and Clinical Solutions. In the event of a pandemic outbreak, this fully managed solution would help local healthcare professionals, governments and citizens safely and consistently assess symptoms and direct patients to the most appropriate level of care - thereby alleviating strain on local primary care providers during a public health crisis.

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TalkStation™ 4.0 Improves Radiology Efficiency with Features that Streamline Reporting Workflow

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces the release of TalkStation™ 4.0, its integrated speech recognition workflow solution for radiology reporting today. The new software platform includes features that improve physician efficiency, enhance speech recognition, and provide tighter integration with the company's IMPAX® radiology Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS).

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