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iSOFT Systems Integrate Patient Records Across Portuguese Health Centres

iSOFT Spain, an IBA Health Group company, has installed its hospital information solution at four health centres and one hospital in Portugal for private healthcare group ESSAUDE in a project worth €519,000. The system was installed in just four months. Running on a single database, the solution provides integrated patient management, clinical and financial applications across the five centres.

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InferMed Announces successful collaboration with Siemens

InferMed Ltd, the leading global provider of advanced decision support and data capture solutions for clinical research and practice, today announced that they have successfully completed the first year of study in conjunction with Siemens AG and researchers at the Technical University of Munich that enables an immediate, scalable method of automatically transferring data from an EMR to an EDC system, reducing lag time and greatly increasing efficiency.

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Chronic Care at the Crossroads White Paper

The World Health Organization reports that chronic disease is responsible for 60% of all deaths worldwide. In the UK, 17.5 million people are living with chronic illness, and among people over 75 years of age, three-quarters have at least one chronic disease. Chronic illness is challenging for patients because they often have to make significant changes in their social and family relationships while dealing with physical pain, prolonged medical treatment, psychological distress and growing restrictions on their daily activities. As a result, their quality of life is significantly reduced.

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Virtual Human Offers Insights Into HIV Drug Efficacy

EU-funded scientists have used a prototype of a Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) to simulate the efficacy of an HIV drug in blocking a key protein used by the virus. The VPH concept involves linking networks of computers from around the world to simulate the inner workings of the human body. With it, scientists can study the effects of a drug and see what is happening at the organ, tissue, cell and molecular levels.

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The First Web 2.0 Pharmaceutical News Portal

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World Pharma News project is launching a Web 2.0 pharmaceutical news platform, named as well World Pharma News but with attached '.net' extension. Web 2.0 generally represents knowledge-oriented social-networking platforms focused first of all on collaborative approaches.

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Computer Technology to Aid Therapy of Speech Disorders

Under the auspices of the OLP project, a complete computer-based system was developed that may significantly contribute to the therapy of specific speech disorders at the articulation level. The system effectively combines automatic speech recognition and distance learning. Based on real-time audio-visual feedback of the subject's speech, therapy can be specially designed and customised to each individual's specific needs.

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Philips' Fetal-Maternal Monitors Designed with Clinicians and Patients in Mind

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced the release of its Avalon FM40 and FM50 fetal-maternal monitors. The Avalon FM40 and FM50 are the newest additions to the Avalon family of fetal-maternal products, which includes the Avalon Cordless Transducer System (CTS) and the Avalon FM20 and FM30 fetal-maternal monitors.

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World of Health IT 08 Conference & Exhibition - Call for Papers Deadline Extended

4-6 November, 2008, Bella Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark.
The World of Health IT 2008 Conference & Exhibition will be designed by and for clinicians and other health professionals; health IT users and buyers; directors and administrators; informatics professionals; academicians; relevant standardisation and competent authorities on an international level and national level, and vendors such as software and hardware development companies and professional services firms.

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FP7 One Year on Revolutionary and Working

The EU's Seventh Framework (FP7), now one year into its seven-year life span, is a 'kind of transition programme', taking Europe's research community in the direction of the new instruments that were introduced last year, said EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik in an interview with CORDIS News.

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Supporting and Boosting Investment in eHealth

This study was commissioned by the Information Society and Media Directorate General with the aim to assess different financing opportunities against the financing needs of eHealth investment. Preliminary observations are available and a final report will be published at the end of the study (end 2008).

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