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Telemedicine to Transform European Healthcare

European healthcare is threatened by soaring costs and limited resources. Market tests demonstrating that telemedical services can cut costs and improve treatment are now being implemented across the continent. If you are injured in a car crash or suspect you are having a stroke, quick diagnosis and treatment by top specialists could be critical to the outcome. Wouldn't it be great if you could get that state-of-the-art care wherever you are, without having to be rushed to a clinic able to handle the case?

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Swedish and Finnish Officials Look to UK Telehealthcare Success

Swedish and Finnish local authority officials and health and social care leaders have visited the UK to view the success of telehealthcare initiatives in offering personalised community-based care, ensuring an efficient use of available healthcare resources and improving quality of life.

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Close to the User: User Centered Design Improves Workflows in Radiology

The software developers at Siemens Healthcare have come up with something special for customers employing Siemens PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information System) software: Clinical staff members process their specific tasks via "role-based portals". These portal applications are tailored to the respective users and workplaces.

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The First International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN 2009)

June 14, 2009, Dresden, Germany.
The International Workshop on Medical Applications Networking (MAN) provides a forum for discussion of recent developments, bringing together researchers, scientists, engineers, academicians and students all around the world to share the latest updates on new technologies and applications that would shape the next generation of networks and systems related with medicine and healthcare.

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Agfa-Gevaert Announced First Quarter Results - HealthCare Segment

Agfa HealthCare performed in line with earlier expressed expectations, in spite of the economic crisis. The business group's sales decreased by only 1.0 percent to 291 million Euro. The markets for X-ray film and hardcopy film evolved in line with the trend of the previous quarters. Due to the crisis, some care organizations are postponing their investments in Computed Radiography (CR) equipment. Despite the weak economic conditions, Imaging IT and Enterprise IT performed markedly better than in the first months of 2008.

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7th HealthGrid International Conference Registration Open

June 29 - July 1, 2009, Berlin, Germany
The 7th annual HealthGrid conference is designed to bring together the fast-growing community of HealthGrid researchers and users and to foster closer interactions among them. The conference sessions address the multidisciplinary educational and professional development needs of the community, including Grid middleware and Grid applications developers, Biomedical and health informatics users, Security specialists and Policy makers.

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Over £220 Million to Boost Innovation in the NHS

A £220 million fund will be made available to encourage innovation within the UK's NHS, Health Minister Lord Darzi announced today, during an event at the Science Museum in London to mark the launch of 'Innovation for a Healthier Future', a series of initiatives to nurture and reward innovation within the NHS.

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InterSystems Spotlights Winners of 2009 Innovator Awards

InterSystems Corporation has announced the winners of its annual worldwide Innovator Awards competition. The awards honor and encourage development of innovative solutions that utilize one or more of InterSystems' software products. Entries were received from a large field of developers in 13 countries and the submissions were judged by an independent panel of IT industry experts.

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Industrial Excellence Award goes to Siemens Unit Angiographic, Fluoroscopic and Radiographic Systems

The Angiographic, Fluoroscopic and Radiographic Systems Unit of Siemens Healthcare took part in the Industrial Excellence competition for "top factory" and recently has been selected as the German and European winner. The international jury gave top grades to the management and employees of the Siemens unit located in Forchheim in all categories, ranging from the business model to strategic implementation and cooperation with customers.

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European IT Research Must be 'Inventive and Bold' to Stay Ahead

The EU must boost its visionary IT (information technology) research policy in order to lead the way in turning bright research ideas into future technologies, the first ever European Future Technologies Conference heard yesterday. The event, which runs from 21 to 23 April in Prague, Czech Republic, was organised by the European Commission to foster a discussion on frontier science and how tomorrow's technologies could impact on society.

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