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Personal Health Record LifeSensor optimizes communication in physician networks

"We are one of the five leading practice networks in Germany in the areas of management, structures, and IT, and we are proud to have received the highest ratings in all categories"; that is how Dr. Elmar Schmid, Initiator of the physicians' network Patient-Partner Association, expresses his joy at the excellent showing of his network in the University of Erlangen's Practice Network Study 2006. The study examined the degree of maturity of physicians' networks with regard to strategic, process-oriented, and information technology factors. The Patient-Partner Association, which uses the web-based personal health record LifeSensor, did particularly well in the areas of IT and communication, among others.

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Context-aware Service Coordination in Mobile P2P Environments

CASCOM's main objective is to develop, implement, validate, and trial of intelligent, context-aware agent-based service coordination infrastructure for innovative Semantic Web service discovery, composition, and execution across mobile and fixed peer-to-peer service networks.

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Fostering the competitiveness of Europe's ICT industry: Commission launches Task Force

The information and communication technology (ICT) sector is a key contributor to growth in the EU. Meeting for the first time yesterday, the new Task Force – launched by the European Commission – will tackle barriers to competition and the competitiveness of the ICT sector. The ICT Task Force is composed of high-level representatives of the ICT industry and of civil society. This is one of several Commission initiatives that aim to help create a more favourable environment for business in the EU.

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ICT Riga, 11-13 June 2006

The European Commission, together with the Latvian Government and the Austrian Presidency of the EU, is organising this high-level conference on the theme "ICT for an inclusive society". Practitioners, representatives of civil society, representative groups and industry, and Ministers from all EU Member States will meet to set the eInclusion policy agenda for the coming years.

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eHealth Europe 2007

From Strategies to Applications
17 - 19 April 2007 in Berlin

The aim of "eHealth Europe 2007 - From Strategies to Applications" is to present the myriad telematics activities carried out by the Member States of the EU, with focus on the benefits to be gained by their application. The objective is to identify solutions for cross-border, interoperable processes and Europe-wide electronic services and to present and discuss the preparatory activities conducted by our European partners in this field.

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Telemedicine solutions to optimise healthcare

When Dr Javier Marco checks his patients he often uses a computer with a videoconferencing link. Many of his elderly patients live in remote villages in the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees and no longer travel to where he works. "They're very satisfied. There is less inconvenience and the quality of care is better," he says.

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European Biotech industry figures show signs of chronic under-funding

The latest figures published today compares biotechnology sectors across some eighteen European nations and the USA.

The report finds that the European and the US biotechnology industries both have around 2000 companies, but the US sector employs nearly twice as many people, spends around three times as much on research and development, has twice the number of employees involved in research and development, raises over twice as much venture capital, and has access to 10 times as much debt finance. It earns twice as much revenue.

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Agreement on new € 3.6 billion "competitiveness and innovation programme"

The European Parliament has adopted the first "Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme" (CIP). Between 2007 and 2013, some 350,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will receive € 3.6 billion in EU support to invest in all forms of innovation and growth. The new programme will support actions to help enterprises and industry to innovate. It will also boost energy efficiency and renewable energy sources, environmental technologies and a better use of information and communication technology (ICT). The final adoption in Council will follow in the coming weeks.

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Google Trends and eHealth

Google Trends represents a new service offered by Google which allow you to compare the world's interest in your favourite topics. By example we have entered four topics: eHealth, Telemedicine, Medical Informatics and Health Informatics in order to identify how often they've been searched for on Google over time.

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Quick and easy, iMedOne gives hospital staff more time with patients

The Bundesknappschaft hospital in Bochum-Langendreer, Germany, cares for a large number of patients and subsequently generates a lot of information. TietoEnator's easy-to-use hospital information system, iMedOne, is therefore vital for staff to be able to devote more time to their patients.

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