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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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CAST PHARMA Announces a New Office in Denmark

CAST PHARMA, a premier European 3D pharmaceutical and biomedical animation production company, has announced the opening of the new office in Ballerup, Denmark. This new office will allow Cast Pharma to meet the growing demand in the Northern Europe pharmaceutical market and to improve services to existing clients.

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Finnish Heart Research Technology VTT's Method Eases Early Diagnosis of Severe Heart Muscle Disease

Dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disease leading to dilation and impaired contraction of the left ventricle, is a severe and often familial disease. It is difficult to diagnose the disease with cardiac ultrasound, particularly at an early stage when there are only minimal, early changes of the heart. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a method based on cardiac MRI, currently in research use, to help the physician to identify disease-related changes of the heart at an early stage.

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Call for papers: eHealth and Beyond

Today, citizens aged 65+ make up 16 percent of the total population in all EU countries; this is projected to rise to 18 percent by 2010 and will continue to rise. The most dramatic increase is expected in the 80+ age range with a corresponding increase in co-morbidities that will place additional strains on existing health systems.

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