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A New Ambulance Communications System

Diagnosing and treating a critically ill or injured patient as early as possible can mean the difference between life and death. A new communications system between a moving ambulance and its hospital base allows the simultaneous transmission of bandwidth-hungry video and ultra-sonic images, telephone communications and patient data, all at the same time.

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Abcam and Transinsight Collaborate in the Area of Semantic Search Technologies

Abcam, a bioscience company specialising in the supply of antibodies from a web-based catalogue and Transinsight, a specialist in semantic search technologies announced a collaboration in the field of protein information quality control using bioinformatics workflows.

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Sagem Orga the First Company to Provide the New Generation 1 Electronic Health Card

The smart card expert Sagem Orga, in collaboration with the health insurer Techniker Krankenkasse, has become the first company to develop the next-generation electronic health card. This Generation 1 card will enable Techniker Krankenkasse to test and prove the online capability required of the cards and connected systems at an early stage.

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European Researchers Advance Bone Implants Technology

European researchers are relentless in their pursuit to develop technologies across the board. Case in point is medical technology and bone implants. Enter a team of researchers from the Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research who have developed a simulation programme calculating the internal structure and density distribution of bone material.

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Philips Offers Premium Image Quality in a Portable System

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHI) announced the launch of its advanced handheld ultrasound system, the Philips CX50 CompactXtreme. Designed to meet the needs of cardiologists for clear diagnostic data at the bedside, the new compact system combines the image quality expected of a traditional, premium, full-size system with the convenience of portability.

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Agfa-Gevaert Announced Second Quarter Results - HealthCare Segment

Agfa-Gevaert announced its second quarter results. Mainly due to currency effects, Group sales declined 8.1 percent to 777 million Euro. In local currency, the decline was limited to 2.6 percent. Agfa Graphics' sales slightly decreased (in local currency), whereas Agfa HealthCare's competitive position suffered from the strong Euro.

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New FP7 eHealth Project - GAP

The main objectives of GAP are to assess the need and the means for a generic predictive solution able to produce alarms at EU level and to elaborate an appropriate set of actions that should define the basis for a common protocol for the management of HC threats prediction in Europe: a roadmap for DG-INFSO to lead the necessary research in order to achieve an integrated and interoperable pan-European risk prediction and management tool system.

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iSOFT Wins $14 Million New Business in Europe

iSOFT, an IBA Health Group company (ASX: IBA) announced that it has secured new business together with renewal of contracts worth AS$14 million in the UK and central Europe over the past month. iSOFT Northern Europe has had a record month of new orders worth AS$5 million (€3.1 million), while iSOFT UK and Ireland has agreed contract extensions worth AS$9 million (£4.22 million) for ongoing maintenance and support.

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LifeSensor Passes Performance Benchmark Safely

10,000 virtual users access 10 million LifeSensor personal health records simultaneously. Response times are stable at less than two seconds. In a nutshell, this is the result of a ten-day performance test conducted by eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) at the Hewlett Packard European Performance and Benchmark Center. The result proves again: LifeSensor is ready for large-scale use.

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Robotised Tele-Ultrasound Examination via Satellite

Partners in the European MARTE (MOBILE And ROBOTISED TELEECHOGRAPHY) project, in collaboration with ROBOSOFT, carried out the first robotised tele-ultrasound examination via satellite. This demonstration was accomplished with an ESTELE robot entirely controlled by the robuBOX®.

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