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EU launches ambitious new 10-point innovation plan

The European Commission has launched an ambitious 10-point innovation plan which calls for urgent action at regional, national and European levels and across a range of policy areas.

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ICT Standardization and Research - towards FP7

Wednesday 17 January 2007,
Brussels, Bedford Hotel, 135 – 137 rue du Midi

COPRAS, together with its consortium partners CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, W3C & The Open Group, organises a major conference on ICT research and standardization, against the background of the launch of the European 7th Framework Programme.

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@LIS Day

The @LIS Day is an initiative organised within the European Commission @LIS Programme aiming at gathering all the energies, ideas and collaboration interests from Europe and Latin America in fields such as e-health, e-inclusion, e-learning, and e-government on a specific day, during which many activities will take place, showing the importance of shenghtening the bridges between the two continents towards a more cohesive and inclusive Information Society for all.

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ICW submits Connector for Approval to Gematik

The eHealth specialist InterComponentWare (ICW) has submitted its connector "Medical NTBA" for approval to Gematik, the German operation company for the national electronic health card. The approval is a prerequisite for the application of the connector in official test regions for the electronic health card.

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Interactive online tool for managing craniofacial anomalies

A web-based interactive tool for cleft lip and palate speech and language assessment has been developed. An EC funded project, EUROCRAN has set out to solve problems associated with treating children with craniofacial anomalies (CFA) such as cleft lip through five inter-related work packages.

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Agfa HealthCare's strong reputation in hospital IT

Agfa HealthCare announces today that the AZ Monica acute care hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, has contracted Agfa HealthCare to install ORBIS™, Agfa HealthCare's comprehensive hospital and clinical IT system.

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Remote health monitoring for better care, lower costs

The economic and social burden of healthcare is weighing heavily on governments, healthcare providers and citizens, particularly as Europeans age. However e-health tools – such as mobile monitoring applications for patients and their care providers – are enabling care services to be redesigned to be more flexible and effective.

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Saving time with Cardiac MRI (CMR)

At the WCC 2006 in Barcelona, Siemens Medical Solutions presented a new software tool for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) especially developed for application in cardiology.

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The ICT for BIO-Medical Sciences 2006 conference received 400 participants

The Conference focused on exciting research results and challenges related to medical imaging and computer simulations of organs and diseases for safer and more effective medicines, and to see ways of managing growing medical knowledge. Finally, to see the latest developments in computing that is inspired by nature.

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MEDOS Makes Its Systems Ready for the Electronic Health Card

The medical software vendor MEDOS AG and the eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) signed a cooperation agreement. The companies agree to make the MEDOS systems ready for the electronic health card and link them to the personal health record LifeSensor and to the hospital networking solution ICW ProfessionalGate.

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