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S.O.S eHealth Initiative

The SOS project is a first step in addressing problems faced by doctors treating patients who seek health treatment when abroad. These problems include re-supplying essential medication that a patient has lost or forgotten, communicating medical situations to foreign-language doctors, diagnosing illness and prescribing proper medication with little knowledge of patient history.

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Summer School 2008 - Cardiovascular Applications of Molecular Imaging

This year's DiMI/EMIL Summer School will take place on 1st - 4th September at the University of Münster, Germany. In 2008, the Summer School of Molecular Imaging is focused on the application of molecular imaging on cardiovascular diseases. Various techniques of molecular imaging can be used for refined diagnosis of diseases responsible for the highest number of victims in industrialized countries.

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Commission Recommendation on Cross-Border Interoperability of Electronic Health Record Systems

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The Commission Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record systems (hereinafter referred to as 'the Recommendation') has been drafted as a follow-up to the Community eHealth Action Plan which, in 2004, defined interoperability of electronic health records as one of the priorities for Member States in the roadmap annexed to the Action Plan.

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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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