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MEDICA 2006 with a comprehensive range of information on IT in health care

This year, the VHitG (Association of Manufacturers of IT Solutions for Health Care) and Messe Düsseldorf will again be organising their joint forum "MEDICA meet.IT – The Forum" from Wednesday to Friday within the context of the world's largest medical fair MEDICA in Düsseldorf (15 until 18 November 2006).

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A roadmap towards a European HealthGrid

A major challenge for the coming years is to address the unique ICT aspects of the life sciences in an integrated way. Life science research present the need to access, analyse, protect & share massive quantities of diverse, geographically distributed information, computationally intensive analysis techniques and rapidly evolving medicine, science & technology.

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Barriers to eHealth deployment must be overcome

At the first World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition in Geneva, representatives of the European healthcare IT and ICT industry gathered to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing eHealth solutions in Europe today.

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CSW to work with Consortium to specify Finnish National Healthcare Information System

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Finland) has chosen the consortium headed by WM-data, to specify the Finnish national healthcare information system architecture. The consortium includes: Avain Technologies, Commit; Oy, CSW Group and Medici Data. This specification work will provide the foundation for a logically integrated healthcare service information system nationwide.

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ScanBalt - the network of networks

ScanBalt - the network of networks - has the vision of creating a competitive world-class meta-bioregion. ScanBalt BioRegion consists of the Nordic and Baltic countries as well as Poland, Northern Germany and Northwestern Russia (11 countries in total).

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Recent study points to cost savings of up to 30 percent with ORBIS hospital information system

At The World of Health IT (WoHIT) Conference, Agfa HealthCare announces the findings of a recent study that the company commissioned from Accenture on the economic efficiency of ORBIS™, Agfa's comprehensive hospital-wide clinical information system.

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Getting eHealth to live up to its promise

With Europe's population ageing rapidly and the demand for healthcare growing, healthcare services need to become more efficient. However, little hard evidence is available on the contribution of eHealth solutions.

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Philips ProScribe connects physicians to patient information across the hospital

At World of Health IT 2006 in Geneva from October 10-13, Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) will be showcasing the ruggedized ProScribe wireless thin-client display from Philips FIMI, which enables physicians and nurses to access patient data immediately, wherever they are in the hospital.

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GA2LEN NoE calls for more focus on allergies in FP7

The Network of Excellence (NoE) GA2LEN is urging policy makers to support the European Parliament's proposal to include allergic diseases in the health priorities of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

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Agfa HealthCare will present its full IT Solutions portfolio at The World of Health IT 2006

At the World of Health IT (WoHIT) Conference and Exhibition, Agfa HealthCare will present its full IT Solutions portfolio, including ORBIS, one of the leading Hospital Information Systems in Europe.

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