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Innovative Solution for Integrated Electronic Health Record (IEHR)

MedXchange is operational since 2000 with its web-based product and has acquired a long and strong experience with its unique multilingual cross-border application of Integrated Electronic Health Record (IEHR). A very quick and reliable way of medical data exchange is offered 24h/7d by the real-time management innovative system with main focus on practical needs.

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ICT Standards in the Health Sector: Current Situation and Prospects

This new study about ICT standards in the health sector by empirica provides a structured overview of eHealth standards development and uptake in a European context, paying special attention to standards for electronic health records. The study was commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate General Enterprise and Industry and explores the current status of ICT health standardisation processes and their future potential. Key findings include the following:

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Collexis Announces Market Leader Position in Scientific Grant Analysis

Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced today that they are becoming the global leader in grant analysis and grant management tools in the sciences.

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Two Good eHealth Cases in Educational Sessions at WoHIT 2008

As Good eHealth's main objective is to identify and communicate on good practices and their associated benefits, Good eHealth plays a prominent role in the educational sessions on the program of The World of Health IT 2008 Conference & Exhibition (WoHIT 2008). A good opportunity to take a close look at a number of interesting eHealth cases from the Knowledge Base.

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Call for Papers for the ICMCC Event 2009

1-3 June, 2009 Psychology Business School, University of Westminster, London, UK
Dealing with medical and care compunetics, the field of social, societal and ethical implications of computing and networking, ICMCC decided to focus the 2009 Event on Patient 2.0 Empowerment, more specific on Electronic Health Records (EHR) and secondarily, the connection between EHR and Digital Homecare.

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Philips Places Simplicity at the Heart of Cardiac Care

Solutions offered by Philips can help to reduce the time from discovery of a heart attack to treatment to 90 minutes, the limit recommended by experts, by enabling hospitals to better organize resources throughout the treatment procedure, starting before patients enter their doors.

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T-Systems Dialog Forum for Health - Experts Discuss New Solutions for Resource Optimization

T-Systems is supporting dialog in the healthcare sector and invited guests to an expert panel titled "Hospitals - A Bottomless Pit?". In the plenum, invited experts discussed solutions for optimizing resources and gave recommendations on how to handle future health sector reforms.

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Smart Textiles are Tackling Some of the Toughest Challenges

Smart fabrics and intelligent textiles - material that incorporates cunning molecules or clever electronics - is thriving and European research efforts are tackling some of the sector's toughest challenges. Clothes that monitor your heart, measure the chemical composition of your body fluids or keep track of you and your local environment promise to revolutionise healthcare and emergency response, but they present tough research challenges, too.

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Boost Biosystems Creates New Initiatives

Biosystems technology, the by-product of biology and microsystems components interfacing, addresses modern biotechnology and medicine concerns in developed countries. For its part, the EU-funded project Boost Biosystems seeks to fuel cooperation between academia and industry in the cross-disciplinary field of biosystems technologies in the ScanBalt BioRegion, the life science metacluster in the Baltic Sea region.

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Philips and King's College London to Collaborate on Research into Heart Disease

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) has announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a five-year research collaboration with King’s College London. Under the multi-million Euro agreement, Philips and King's College London's Division of Imaging Sciences will develop new medical imaging research projects with a particular focus on cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology.

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