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iB Solutions Wins €600,000 Contract with Irish Medical Council

iB Solutions, an IBA Health Group company (ASX:IBA), has won a contract worth over €600,000 with the Medical Council of Ireland in Dublin to develop a system for the country's 17,000 doctors to register membership online. The deal includes capital spend and support for five years.

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Work Programme for FP7 ICT Research 2009-10

This work programme (WP) defines the priorities for the calls for proposals to be launched in the period 2008-09. Projects resulting from these calls will start having an impact on markets in the 2015-20 timeframe. By then, the global ICT/knowledge infrastructure - networks, devices, services - as well as the market structures, value chains and business models are likely to have changed considerably from today's situation. The research challenges in this WP are expressed with this in mind.

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Intel Announces its First Home Medical Device in the United Kingdom

Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Health Guide, a care management tool designed for healthcare professionals who treat patients with chronic conditions, for the UK. The Intel Health Guide represents Intel's entry into a new category of personal health systems that go beyond the simple remote patient monitoring systems available today.

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Easy Access to Patient Information

In today's dynamic healthcare environment, there is a growing complexity of networks and devices. Physicians and nurses are increasingly mobile, yet they need to make quick decisions based on clinical evidence located elsewhere. As a result, clinicians need easy access to information for decision support - regardless of where they are or the location of the data.

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NeuroNexis Technologies and Philips Partner to Research Deep Brain Stimulation Devices

NeuroNexus Technologies and Philips Research have signed a joint research agreement to develop next-generation deep brain stimulation devices with the ambition to improve the treatment of neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders.

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GAP Project - New Approach to Health Risk Prediction

The GAP Project's goal is to assess the need and the means for a "generic predictive model" for an ICT system capable to produce health alarms at EU level and design a roadmap for the future research on ICT tools for Guard (Detection), Anticipation and Prediction of potential large scale threats.

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CompuGROUP - A Perfect eHealth Network

Networking and the conquering of sector boundaries are pivotal issues in future healthcare and welfare systems. More and more hospitals, rehabilitation clinics and social services combine forces both horizontally and vertically. At the same time, they are also opening up to other service providers.

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MEDICA 2008 - UK Leads the Way in Medical Technology Innovation

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain. Over the past 60 years, investment and innovation in the service has transformed healthcare delivery and, as a result, the NHS has been seen as a model of healthcare service world-wide.

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SCM Microsystems Introduces New Mobile Terminal for the German Electronic Health Card

SCM Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMM, Prime Standard: SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, today announced its latest terminal for the German electronic health card program: the eHealth500 mobile terminal.

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Reduced Exposure Dose Combined with Top Image Quality Offers Clear Benefits

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, has announced that two recent independent studies have confirmed that the company's pioneering DX-S offline detector system delivers high quality diagnostic exposures with significantly reduced patient exposure dose.

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