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Small Chips with Big Potential: New EU Recommendations for Bar Codes

Europeans should be able to have control over smart chips, a worldwide market set to grow five times over in the next decade, while still being able to easily use them to make everyday life simpler. There are already over 6 billion smart chips, microelectronic devices that can be integrated into a variety of everyday objects from fridges to bus passes.

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GE and Intel Invest $250 million in New Market Opportunity

GE (NYSE:GE) and Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) announced an alliance to market and develop home-based health technologies that will help seniors live independently and patients with chronic conditions manage their care from the comfort of their home or wherever they choose.

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simon - Open Source Language-Independent Speech Recognition System

simon, developed as an open-source platform under the General Public License (GPL) has the aim to serve as an advanced and state of the art speech recognition system (SRC) for people with locomotor and cognitive dysfunctions.

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EU Project Empowers Elderly to Live Independently

Researchers in the EU-funded PERSONA (Perceptive spaces promoting independent aging) project are drawing on a range of advanced technologies to empower the elderly and support them in their efforts to maintain both their independence and a good quality of life.

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Toumaz Technology Successfully Delivers Technology Platform for DIAdvisor Project

Toumaz Holdings, the specialist niche investor in emerging technologies, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Toumaz Technology Limited ('Toumaz Technology') has successfully completed the timely delivery of the hardware, software and sensors that are being used to capture large-scale data in the first phase of DIAdvisor's clinical trial.

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Agfa HealthCare Signs Agreement with Multi-Site Antwerp Hospital Group ZNA

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has signed an agreement with ZNA (Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen - Hospital Network Antwerp) for the delivery of its IMPAX 6TM image management solution to support and centralize the diagnostic and clinical imaging needs of its nine sites across the city.

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The 4th Edition of the E-health Congress from Bucharest, Romania

Tarus Media and British Medical Journal (Romanian edition) have announced the E-health 2009 Congress, it will take place on 26-27 May, 2009 and will represent one of the most important events for the Romanian healthcare system. The E-health 2009 Congress is designed to bring together the national and international Healthcare ICT key players, healthcare professionals and to foster closer interactions among them.

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Philips Updates Markets on Healthcare Sector

At a meeting with investors and financial analysts yesterday, Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) has updated the market on progress at the company's Healthcare sector. Executives at Philips Healthcare, including sector Chief Executive Officer and member of the Philips Board of Management Steve Rusckowski, elaborated on the fundamental strengths of Philips' Healthcare business and discussed the long-term growth and profitability drivers that give Philips a uniquely strong position going forward.

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The One Health Alliance Launched

The launch of The One Health Alliance has been recently announced. Composed of eight member companies this alliance has been established to offer an alternative approach to the delivery of technology and information solutions to both public and private healthcare organisations.

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180 Million People Now Have a European Health Insurance Card

As the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) initiative nears a five year milestone, the European Commission has today announced new statistics showing that the number of cards in circulation has topped 180 million. The number of Europeans holding the card has increased every year since the programme's introduction in 2004.

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