Health Industry Insights Europe Predicts Personalized Home Care Will Replace the Old Framework
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Health Industry Insights, an IDC company, announced the release of a new report which identifies Western European Healthcare top 10 predictions for 2007. Among the predictions, Health Industry Insights' European team foresees a long-term shift to transform service delivery to a patient-centric model, where prevention of acute episodes is part of patient every-day lives at home, and patients act as gatekeepers to national consolidated electronic health records.
EU project to develop emotionally aware robots
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The FEELIX GROWING (FEEL, Interact, eXpress: a Global approach to development With Interdisciplinary Grounding) initiative brings together partners from fields as diverse as developmental and comparative psychology, neuroimagery, ethology and robotics.
Tracking the Secrets of the Brain
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Erich Reinhardt, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and president and CEO of Siemens Medical Solutions, has been awarded the International Neurobionics Award 2006 in the amount of 25,000 Euro by the International Neurobionics Foundation. Erich R. Reinhardt would like to promote young scientists with his prize money.
Siemens completes acquisition of GSD
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Following the announcement in January 2007 of its intent, Siemens Medical Solutions announced today that it has received antitrust approval and completed its acquisition of Gesellschaft fur Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen mbH (GSD), headquartered in Berlin.
Initiate Systems Only Vendor to Complete IHE HL7 V3 Compliance Requirements for PIX and PDQ Manager
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Initiate Systems, Inc., the leading provider of customer-centric master data management solutions for creating complete, real-time views of data about people, households, and organisations, announced it is the only vendor to pass all Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE) compliance requirements for support of Health Level 7 Version 3 (HL7 V3) for Patient Identifier Cross-reference (PIX) Manager and Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) Manager interoperability standards.
Philips joins Intel to develop wireless, handheld "Mobile Clinical Assistant"
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Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced its plan to design, manufacture and ship a Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) to enable nurses and physicians to improve bedside patient care by using an integrated, wireless device to connect to patient information stored in electronic medical records.
Intel Technology Allows Nurses to Spend More Time with Patients
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Intel Corporation announced the mobile clinical assistant (MCA) is ready to enable nurses to spend more time with patients, do their jobs on the move while remaining connected, and manage the administration of medications. Motion Computing's C5 is the first product based on Intel's MCA platform and has earned support from clinicians and nurses participating in pilot studies around the world.
Siemens and Partners HealthCare Plan to Take Healthcare IT Innovation to New Levels
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Siemens Medical Solutions and Partners HealthCare have a long-standing research and development relationship focusing on the advancement of medical technology. Now, the two industry-leading organizations are exploring a new collaboration which will bring innovative Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to healthcare information technology.
Agfa focuses on patient centric clinical workflow automation
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General centralized healthcare is evolving toward decentralized community care offering a new era of real patient-centered continuum of care. This trend requires collecting and offering information crossing the borders of medical specialties in a true Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
Robots provide clues to evolution of communication
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The study was funded through the EU-funded ECAgents (Embodied and Communicating Agents) project, which aims to develop a new generation of robots which are able to interact with each other and their environment without human intervention. It is published online by the journal Current Biology.