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Asklepios Future Hospital (AFH) Conference

Discussing innovative solutions and new technologies, pooling strengths to tackle new challenges - the key purposes of AFHdialogTAGE, the Asklepios Future Hospital (AFH) Conference. The two-day specialist conference will be held in Berlin on January 28 and 29, 2008.

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ICT Project to Enhance Human-System Interactivity

As technical devices grow ever more sophisticated and their complexity increases, the EASY Interactions project is trying to enhance interaction between the human user and the technical system. Traditional control devices such as mouse, keyboard, joystick or screen have been outgrown by today's information and communication technology (ICT) gadgets, say project stakeholders, claiming that such difficulties inhibit many application opportunities.

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The Priorities of the Slovenian Presidency in Research

The overarching goal of the Presidency in the field of R&D is the further development of the European Research (ERA). Being one of the central pillars to achieve the Lisbon objectives, the full realization of ERA will significantly contribute to making Europe the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world.

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Top 20 eHealth News Articles of the 2007 Year

eHealthNews.EU Portal, the first European eHealth news portal, is announcing the Top 20 news articles of the 2007 year, according to the collected 'page views' web statistics:

1. HEALTHINF 2008 - Call for Papers
The purpose of the HEALTHINF 2008 - International Conference on Health Informatics (28-31 January 2008, Funchal, Maderia - Portugal) is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the specialized support to persons with special needs in particular.

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ROBOSOFT Introduces a New Robuter Aiming at Assisting People at Home

The prototype shows how service robots can help elderly and handicapped people staying at home. It is based on robuLAB10, an off-theshelf mobile platform, and a robuBOX™, the generic robotic middleware based on Microsoft® Robotics Studio, that comes with every robot produced by ROBOSOFT: it allows providers of services to customize it and offer various services to their customers.

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First Projects Launched Under FP7 Now Profiled on CORDIS

One year into the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and action is well underway, with the third call for proposals currently active. Information on the first projects accepted for funding under FP7 has now also been published on CORDIS, the EU's official information service for research and development.

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eHealth Initiative Releases Results of 2007 Survey on Health Information Exchange

Recently, the multi-stakeholder non-profit eHealth Initiative (eHI) released the results of its 2007 Fourth Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange at the State, Regional and Community Levels, taking stock of 130 community-based efforts designed to improve health and healthcare through the mobilization of health information electronically.

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Digital Technology Revolutionises NHS Patient Care in England

State of the art digital technology that has revolutionised the way the NHS captures, records and uses patient x-ray and scans is now being used in every hospital trust in England, the Department of Health said today. Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) are replacing the old way of capturing x-rays and scans on film and paper enabling clinical images to be stored electronically and viewed on screen.

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Accelerating the Development of the eHealth Market in Europe

This report on lead market opportunities for eHealth proposes actions aiming at accelerating the development of the European eHealth market, increasing economic benefits and simultaneously developing the quality of health products and services. The prospective return on investment of eHealth is relatively high when compared to the costs inherent in the health sector.

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Transinsight's GoPubMed with Social Networking Features for Biomedical Experts

Biomedical research happens in networks of researchers. Social networking web sites like FaceBook, LinkedIn and Xing use personal networks to establish contacts. On these sites, however, connections must be defined by the users themselves. For the first time, GoPubMed now completely and automatically extracts collaboration networks from millions of biomedical science publications.

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