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EU-funded Researchers Tackle Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide; each year some 60,000 women in Europe alone are diagnosed with the disease, and around half of these cases will prove fatal.Supported by the EU with EUR 2.63 million in funding, the ASSIST project aimed to fix this problem by creating technological links between medical centres specialising in cervical cancer diagnosis and treatment, as well as fuelling data exchange and building a larger data repository.

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New Philips and VTT Development Centre in Finland Will Boost Innovation

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and VTT opened today an InnoHub in the city of Espoo, close to Helsinki to generate innovative ideas and translate these into profitable businesses. Focus areas for the InnoHub are health, life-style and well-being. The centre is a melting pot of people from different backgrounds and experiences, who work closely together in an inspiring and real-life setting that includes a hospital room, a nurse's station as well as a home environment.

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e-Health for Patients Empowerment in Europe

José Luis Monteagudo Peña, Oscar Moreno Gil
The content of this monograph is the result of tasks performed in the context of the eHealth ERA project funded under the EC Information Technologies for Health activities of the EU Sixth Framework Programme. This monograph reviews the state of eHealth applications serving to enhance the role of the patients in the healthcare context. The study has been based on a quite broad collection of practical implementations across Europe.

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Carestream Health Installs 2000th CR System With Digital Mammography Feature

Carestream Health, Inc., installed its two thousandth high-resolution CR system for mammography at the Rechts der Isar Clinic in Munich, Germany. CR EliteThe company's KODAK DIRECTVIEW CR Mammography Feature - which enables mammography images to be captured digitally while utilizing a healthcare provider's existing mammography x-ray unit and workflow processes - is intended for use in the same clinical and screening applications as traditional screen-film based mammography systems.

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Microsoft Health Users Group 2009 Innovation Awards

The Microsoft Healthcare Innovation Awards, now in its twelfth year, is an opportunity to showcase how your organization and your customer's organization, is using technology to enhance and transform the quality of patient care, reduce costs, streamline clinical and business processes, drive interoperability, improve productivity and workflow, and enable informed decisions.

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eHealth 2009 - eHealth for Individuals, Society and Economy

From 18 to 20 February 2009 the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic in cooperation with the European Commission is organizing a ministerial Conference "eHealth for Individuals, Society and Economy". High-level eHealth conferences organized by the presiding countries since 2003 represent important annual milestones in this specific field. The Czech Republic therefore plans to carry on the tradition and host this Conference in Prague as a part of its presidency in the first half of 2009.

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Hospital Electronic Prescribing Project in the UK has Commenced

A major project to implement full e-prescribing and drug administration across three acute care sites in Birmingham's Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has commenced. The Trust's Board has chosen to implement JAC's E-Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system to ensure best practice for patient safety.

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Call for Papers for the 7th HealthGrid Conference

28 June - 1 July 2009, Berlin, Germany.
HealthGrid 2009 is the 7th annual conference dedicated to the transformation of biomedical research, education, and medical care through the application of Grid technologies. The goal of this conference is to promote awareness and use of Grid technologies in the biomedical sector by bringing together stakeholders and experts from a variety of disciplines.

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Philips and Hansen Medical to Integrate X-Ray Imaging and Robotic Catheter

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and Hansen Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: HNSN) have signed joint development and cooperation agreements to co-develop integrated products that may simplify complex cardiac procedures to diagnose and treat irregular heartbeats, also known as arrhythmias.

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EU Launches Project to Improve In-Vitro Diagnostics

The European Union launched a new research project targeting to expand the potentials and utility of in-vitro diagnostics through the creation of new standards for the collection, handling and processing of blood, tissue, tumor and other sample materials. Under the 7th Framework Programme, the European Commission approved the initiative's funding and scope to develop corresponding standards, tools and quality assurance schemes.

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