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French Unveil Presidency Priorities

The French have set the construction of the European Research Area (ERA) as the main research priority for their presidency of the EU. Other priorities include boosting Europe's role in space and making progress towards a Community patent. The French took over the EU Council Presidency from Slovenia on 1 July.

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IRIS Hospital Network Chooses dbMotion to Improve Patient Care

IRIS, the organizational network of Brussels' 5 public hospitals, and dbMotion announced the agreement for a major project to provide an interoperability platform for medical information sharing to the Brussels region.

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eHealth Initiatives to Support Medical Assistance While Travelling and Living Abroad

The European Commission today launched two initiatives to improve the safety and quality of care to people who require medical assistance while travelling or living abroad: a Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record (EHR) systems and the Smart Open Services (SOS) project.

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AOK PLUS' Insured Members to Benefit from Improved Telemedical Care

At the conclusion of a Europe-wide call for tender, AOK PLUS commissioned eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) to implement a telemedical system to care for serious chronic heart failure cases in the German state of Saxony. ICW Care and Disease Manager will be used as the basis of this system.

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IBM Calls on Healthcare Providers to Forge New Delivery Models

IBM (NYSE: IBM) released the latest in its series of "Healthcare 2015" vision statements, looking forward to redefine healthcare delivery models of the future and the competencies that will be required from them. In the study, entitled, Healthcare 2015 and care delivery:

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ICT BIO 2008 - Combining the Power of ICT with Biomedical Sciences

Major diseases like cancer, neurological and cardiovascular diseases are complex in nature involving environmental, life style, ageing and genetic components. One of the future challenges is to integrate the knowledge of all these different components into robust and fully reliable computer models and "in silico" environments that will help the development and testing of new therapies for better prediction and prevention tools in healthcare.

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NHS Scotland eHealth Strategy 2008 - 2011 Launched

The eHealth Strategy for 2008 - 2011 was formally launched by Nicola Sturgeon at this year's NHS Scotland Event. The vision for eHealth supports the goals as set out in the Better Health Better Care Action Plan. This is about exploiting the power of electronic information to help ensure that patients get the right care, involving the right clinicians, at the right time, to deliver the right outcomes. It is therefore as much about transforming traditional processes as it is about technology.

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The Impact of eHealth on the Quality & Safety of Healthcare

A Systemic Overview & Synthesis of the Literature
Report for the NHS Connecting for Health Evaluation Programme
Josip Car, Ashly Black, Chantelle Anandan, Kathrin Cresswell, Claudia Pagliari, Brian McKinstry, Rob Procter, Azeem Majeed and Aziz Sheikh
- There have been substantial developments in information technology hardware and software capabilities over recent decades and there is now considerable potential to apply these technological developments in relation to aspects of healthcare provision.

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Network Designed to Help Health Care Professionals

European researchers have developed a computer system designed to give health care professionals access to a broader range of medical information. However the system, which was meant to allow them to share medical information across a network, highlighted the limits of computer 'understanding'. Unlike humans, computers can't yet make the connecting leaps among various bits of information.

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Picis Named IT Provider for High-Acuity Areas of Seven New Madrid Hospitals

Picis, the leading provider of information systems for the high-acuity areas of hospitals, has announced that the Madrid Health Ministry has chosen Picis Anesthesia Manager, PACU Manager and Critical Care Manager, part of the CareSuite® family of high-acuity solutions, to automate the patient care process in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs), operating rooms (ORs) and recovery rooms of the region’s seven new hospitals.

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