Wirefile seeks international joint venture partners
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Wirefile's particular focus is on opportunities in the emerging "wellness through prevention" market, reflecting the increasing trend in healthcare towards the prevention, rather than the treatment, of chronic diseases.
Grid technology to help European cancer research project
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The three-year multidisciplinary research programme funded by the EU will aim to combine new technologies with biology to enrich molecular libraries and increase the likelihood of discovering potential drugs to treat cancer.
ICW Networks Heidelberg University Hospital with Partner Hospitals
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- Category: InterComponentWare AG (ICW)
Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany, and its partner hospitals of the Health Centers Rhein-Neckar GmbH will be able to jointly access their patients medical data. Using the Professional Suite of the international eHealth specialist, InterComponentWare AG (ICW), this cooperation will enable those involved in a patient's treatment to access medical data via an interfacility medical record.
ICT Policy Support Programme Info Day
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A launch event for the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) will be organised on 24 May 2007 in Brussels. This event corresponds to the opening of the first call for proposals of the ICT PSP. The draft agenda of this event and details of the venue are now available.
eHealth Policy Seminar
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Regions - The Key-players in delivering eHealth: What can the "e" do for your region?
This event will take place in Brussels, 11 May 2007, and will be delivered by the eHealth Workgroup of the IANIS+ Project.
EU project develops intelligent wheelchair
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This requires tapping into the person's neural network, interpreting the cerebral signals in real time and then developing a mechanism that could respond to these instructions and steer the wheelchair with a high degree of accuracy.
International Symposium on Biomedical Informatics in Europe
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25-27 June 2007, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Spain.The symposium is organised by the Research Unit on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) and the European Networks of Excellence INFOBIOMED and SEMANTIC MINING. It aims to serve as a forum to present the results obtained and discuss the current hot topics in Biomedical Informatics.
EU-US eHealth Policy Workshop
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May 10, 2007, Brussels, Marriott Brussels Hotel Rue Orts, 3-7.
This one-day workshop will focus on interoperability, certification and improving patient safety and healthcare quality through IT. Panelists and robust open discussions will focus on those areas where Transatlantic collaboration could prove mutually beneficial. High-level speakers from EU institutions and Member State governments, the US government, academia and industry will address issues related to standardization, best practices & lessons learned, and policy harmonization. Ample discussion time will be provided during the Q&A sessions.
Lille Regional University Hospital (CHRU) signs the agreement with Agfa HealthCare
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Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announces that the Lille Regional Teaching University hospital (CHRU) has chosen its IMPAX(TM) RIS solution for the first stage of its IRIS-project (Intégration du Réseau d'Images au Système d'information hospitalier), aimed at integrating the imaging network into the hospital's IT system. CHRU Lille is France's fourth largest Regional Teaching Hospital, caring for nearly 1 million patients annually.
Successful EU support: MobilAlarm device available at the market
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As of May 2007, the mobile emergency device that was tested in the international project MobilAlarm will be marketed. empirica co-ordinated this project from April 2004 to August 2005. The European Commission supported MobilAlarm in the framework of its programme eTEN electronic Trans-European Networks.