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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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A Wake-up Call for Innovation in Europe, says Commissioner Reding

Europe has started doing better in high-tech research but still has a lot more to do, particularly to capitalise on the results. This is the conclusion of the independent expert report, chaired by former Finnish Prime Minister Esko Aho, that analysed the effectiveness of Information Society research under the EU's 6th Framework Programme for Research and Development.

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Workshop on Citizen Services for Borderless Healthcare in the European Union

9th September 2008
Kieler Schloss, Kiel, Germany
Travelling abroad for pleasure, education, or work has become a natural part of life for many European citizens. Products and services can be bought in another Member State when the need arises, but obtaining healthcare outside their residence country is still problematic for most European citizens.

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European Commission Unleashes €600m for Development of New Digital Solutions for Elderly People

By 2020, 25% of the EU's population will be over 65. To respond to this growing demographic challenge, the Council of Ministers approved today a Commission plan to make Europe a hub for developing digital technologies designed to help older people to continue living independently at home.

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Siemens Next Generation Technology May Bring New Hope to Cancer Patients

The Artiste Solution from Siemens has recently gone clinical in three of the most prominent cancer centers around the world. Dozens of patients have been treated to date at MAASTRO Clinic in the Netherlands, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, and Baton Rouge General's Pennington Cancer Center in Louisiana.

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Agfa HealthCare Announces Launch of its Leading Nursing Solution ORBIS(TM) Care in Belgium

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, and the Imelda Hospital in Bonheiden (Belgium) announced today that more than 15,000 nursing documentation forms have been registered electronically in ORBIS(TM), after the initial go-live in November, 2007.

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Orion Health Opens New Service and Support Office in UK

Orion Health, a leading provider of clinical workflow and integration technology for the healthcare sector, announced today the opening of its office in Reading, which provides a new home for the company's services, technical support and marketing teams for the United Kingdom, Ireland and Northern Europe.

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1st Transatlantic Workshop on Multiscale Cancer Modelling

This workshop will take place alongside the ICT BIO 2008 conference.
Computational and mathematical cancer modeling is already a driving force behind interdisciplinary cancer systems biology. Understanding cancer as a complex dynamic biosystem requires finding ways to investigate and ultimately target its many constituents and their dynamic relationships across multiple scales in space and time – i.e., multi-scale modeling and simulation.

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