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RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG and Siemens launch major project

The RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG and Siemens Medical Solutions signed a contract just over a year ago for the construction and operation of a particle therapy facility. With the permit approval process and application hearing now underway, the high-tech project is beginning to take shape. Construction is expected to begin in the summer of 2007.

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Demonstrating Value Created by In-silico Solutions

Suppliers in the highly competitive and fragmented European virtual screening market face challenges such as limited scientific audience and the lack of common technology standards. Also, despite the high demand for software tools, companies need to develop and introduce the right kind of tools and solutions to broaden their customer base.

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Key Issues of Technical Interoperability Solutions in eHealth and the RIDE Project

One of the key problems in healthcare informatics is the lack of interoperability among different healthcare information systems. Interoperability can be investigated in different categories in the eHealth domain, such as the interoperability of the messages exchanged between healthcare applications, interoperability of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs), interoperability of patient identifiers, coding terms, clinical guidelines and healthcare business processes.

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NHS IT programme 'may produce camel not racehorse'

This was the assessment given by a Fujitsu consultant at last week's eyeforhealthcare conference (Successful Implementation of NPfIT 2007) chaired by Avienda managing director, Ben Stanberry, and widely reported in yesterday's Computer Weekly magazine and the national press.

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Personal Health Systems Conference with new European eHealth trends and dimensions

Personal Health Systems (PHS) Conference was a great success in special by tacking into account that the number of the invited participants has been doubled comparing with the initial expectations. It seams that so high interest in the Personal Health Systems topic hasn't been expected, nevertheless, conference organizers did a very well job and all attendees have been hosted and a nice program has been conducted.

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Philips extends its successful MR NetForum to its CT users

Philips Medical Systems NetForum Community website for MRI has proved so successful that the Company has now extended it to encompass CT users as well.

Ever-increasing workload and time constraints often make it difficult to meet with colleagues face-to-face, or to be fully engaged in professional organisations.

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Med-e-Tel 2007 program highlights

Med-e-Tel offers great networking opportunities. It is the perfect forum to share experiences and knowledge and a chance to gain new insights and to establish new contacts and partnerships. The Med-e-Tel 2007 conference program will again feature speakers from around the world, presenting on a wide variety of ehealth and telemedicine topics.

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This is where robots can be a real help

It may not be long before swarms of tiny mobile robots will be giving a hand to the nurses and medical orderlies in hospitals. January month has been the official launch of a new EU project led by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO.

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WebVMC and Home Telehealth Ltd. Form Partnership in Europe

WebVMC, developer of the RemoteNurse™ telehealth system that enables 24 hour virtual medical care for remote disease management, has entered into an exclusive partnership with Home Telehealth Ltd., (HTL) one of the United Kingdom's leading providers of telehealth products and managed care services.

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Frost & Sullivan to Honour Achievements of European Healthcare Industry Leaders

Frost & Sullivan will host its Excellence in Healthcare Awards Banquet on Wednesday, February 21st 2007 in London.

The Awards Banquet will honour companies for innovative developments, exceptional performances and accomplishments across the drug discovery technologies, healthcare & life sciences IT, medical imaging, patient monitoring and medical devices arenas.

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