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The Health-EU Portal Celebrates its 2nd Anniversary

"The Health-EU portal is a gateway to health information in 20 languages. I hope it will soon become one of the first places where European citizens seek health information on the web. The information has to be clear, concise and relevant to their needs - providing the users with the tools and information they need to make informed healthy choices" says Robert Madelin, Director General for the Health and Consumers Directorate General of the European Commission.

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Swedish Start-Up Axiomatics Leads the Way in the New Access Control Standard

Axiomatics will supply the new XACML based security system - building on its Delegent Authorization Server - for the Swedish Medical Care Advice Service's ground-breaking information provision project. Together with Logica in Sweden, Axiomatics will supply an IT solution that enables healthcare workers around the country to securely access patients' medical history.

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The 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

The 21th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2008) will be held on June 17-19, 2008 at University of Jyväskylä, Finland. CBMS 2008 is held in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committee on Computational Medicine, TCCM) and the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä.

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IBA Wins $3.7 Million Contracts with 16 NHS Trusts in England

Australia's largest listed health information technology company today announced that its UK subsidiary iB Solutions has this month won five contracts with 16 NHS trusts worth a total of $3.7 million (£1.75 million) for its Integra range of financial and purchasing applications.

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UK Government Launches National Debate on the Future of Care

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.

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Medical Systems and Services for Müller-Wohlfahrt Clinic in Munich

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.

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Higher Uptake of iPLATO's Mobile Health Services across PCTs

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.

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Top Inventors Honoured at European Inventor of the Year

Medical technologies dominated the field at the European Inventor of the Year Awards, which were handed out at a ceremony in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 6 May. The inventors of a pioneering antiviral therapy, a new eye-scanning system and a robot surgery process were all honoured for their work, as was the team responsible for making car frames both lighter and safer.

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Picis Launches Total Perioperative Automation Solution in Europe

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.

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What's Next in Healthcare?

21-23 May, 2008, Espace Grande Arche, Paris, France
This 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.

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