Doctors & Dentists Urged To Learn On The Net
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Medicine 2.0 Conference - Call for Abstracts and Presentation Proposals
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September 4-5, 2008
Medicine 2.0 is an international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.
Philips to acquire Northern Ireland Based Healthcare IT Company TOMCAT Systems
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Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) today announced it will acquire TOMCAT Systems Ltd., based in Northern Ireland. Terms of this acquisition were not disclosed. TOMCAT offers a software solution to collect and aggregate data relative to the cardiac care of patients, and allows for a comprehensive, patient-centric presentation of this data to care givers such as doctors and nurses.
HeartCycle Project Sets Out to Create Innovative Telemonitoring Solutions
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Project of the Month - Health-e-Child
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Health-e-Child (HeC) is working to produce a universal biomedical knowledge repository and communication conduit for the future, a common vehicle by which all clinicians will access, analyse, evaluate, enhance and exchange biomedical data of all forms.
EUnetHTA Conference: HTA's Future in Europe
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Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Health technology is the application of scientific knowledge in health care and prevention. Health technology assessment (HTA) is a multidisciplinary process that summarises information about the medical, social, economic and ethical issues related to the use of a health technology in a systematic, transparent, unbiased, robust manner.
TietoEnator Wins Swedish National Electronic Healthcare Record Contract with InterSystems
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InterSystems Corporation announced that the Swedish national electronic health record, known as the National Patient Overview (NPO) will be supplied by TietoEnator using InterSystems HealthShare software. The contract is valued at approximately $19 million for the first five years, with an option to extend for an additional two years.
Med-e-Tel 2008 Program Details
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The Med-e-Tel 2008 conference program (April 16-18, 2008) again features speakers from around the world, presenting on a wide variety of ehealth and telemedicine topics. The Med-e-Tel 2008 opening session on April 16th includes welcome addresses and keynote presentations by:
ICT 2008 Open Call for Networking Session Proposals
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The Networking Sessions at ICT 2008 complement the conference and exhibition and provide an open forum for exchanging views and ideas on how to address current ICT challenges. Networking sessions encourage forward-thinking collaborative initiatives that support the development of the European Research Area.
The Particle Therapy Center of the University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein
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- Category: Siemens Healthineers
The University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein (UC S-H) commissioned a consortium of bidders including Siemens, Bilfinger Berger and HSG Technischer Service with the construction and operation of the first particle therapy center (PTC) in Northern Germany. With overall costs of roughly 250 million EUR, this represents the largest public private partnership (PPP) project ever launched in the German healthcare sector.