UK Government Launches National Debate on the Future of Care
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Health Secretary Alan Johnson today launched an intense six month debate about the future shape of care and support services. A rapidly ageing population means that in 20 years' time a quarter of the entire adult population will be over 65 and the number of people over 85 will have doubled.
Medical Systems and Services for Müller-Wohlfahrt Clinic in Munich
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Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt recently opened a new orthopedic clinic in Munich. The clinic features state-of-the-art medical systems from Siemens Healthcare, including a 1.5-tesla magnetic resonance imager, an X-ray system, several ultrasound units, and an image archiving and communication system specifically designed for radiology applications.
Higher Uptake of iPLATO's Mobile Health Services across PCTs
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Mobile health specialist, iPLATO, announced today that it has rolled out Patient Care Messaging extensively across 10 Primary Care Trusts in the first quarter of 2008. The roll-outs will allow an additional 2 million people across England to benefit from improved access and mobile health promotion from their GPs.
Top Inventors Honoured at European Inventor of the Year
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Picis Launches Total Perioperative Automation Solution in Europe
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Picis, the leading provider of information systems for the high-acuity areas of hospitals, has announced the European launch of Picis Total Perioperative Automation suite of products designed to help hospitals increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve the quality of care through every aspect of surgery, which is the most resource- and cost-intensive area in the hospital.
What's Next in Healthcare?
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21-23 May, 2008, Espace Grande Arche, Paris, FranceThis event at Hitachi's INSPIRE LIFE Exhibition aims to bring the Medical community, and those interested in this increasingly debated subject, together to discuss key issues affecting the quality and efficiency of care given to patients.
The Portoro Declaration - eHealth 2008 Conference
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The potential offered by eHealth, and the evidence of its success, has long been clearly identified. Since 2003, with the creation of a series of eHealth conferences - of which this is the sixth - various Ministerial and high-level groups, together with the European Commission, have agreed to making Declarations and conference conclusions with a focus on eHealth.
UCL researchers publish Summary Care Record (SCR) evaluation
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EHTEL Paves Way to Sustainable HealthCare
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The findings of a report recently published by the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) is presented at the eHealth High Level Conference in Portoroz, Slovenia 6-7 May 2008. "Sustainable Telemedicine: paradigms for future-proof healthcare" presents the current achievements and best practice examples drawn from a number of either on-going or completed pilot projects across Europe.
CompuGROUP Opts for Clarity of Economic Prescriptions
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CompuGROUP Holding AG, a leading European provider of eHealth solutions, opts for a law suit to obtain clarity regarding the legitimacy of implementation regulations pertaining to pharma advertising in information systems for doctors pursuant to the AVWG (German law for the economic provision of pharmaceutical products).