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The convergence of life sciences, healthcare, and information technology is revolutionizing the discovery of new treatments and the practice of medicine. This new paradigm—information based medicine-improves existing pharmaceutical and medical practices with the knowledge generated from the integration of diverse clinical and biomedical data. Accelerate new research discoveries into clinical practice. Access a patient's complete, digitized history and medical records in near-real time. Prescribe targeted medications and treatments based on each patient's complete medical profile, while avoiding medications that might cause adverse effects.

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UK outlines medium-term technology strategies

The UK is setting up 'innovation platforms' in areas identified in a recent report as key to developing the UK's position in the international arena.

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Europe INNOVA goes public

Europe INNOVA, the flagship initiative driving European innovation, is placing its activities in the spotlight with a new web portal. This will provide policy makers, innovation intermediaries and enterprises with an insight into sectoral innovation analysis and networking in Europe.

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What is FP7?

The Framework Programme (FP) is the European Union's main instrument for funding research and development. The FP is proposed by the European Commission and adopted by Council and the European Parliament following a co-decision procedure. FPs have been implemented since 1984 and cover a period of five years with the last year of one FP and the first year of the following FP overlapping. The current FP is FP6, which will be running up to the end of 2006.

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IST 2006 - Strategies for Leadership

This year's edition of the most important European event in the field of Information Society Technologies will coincide with the launch of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development.

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Oracle "Healthcare Provider Examination" Study

Oracle announced the results of its Healthcare Provider Examination study delivering new insight on the healthcare industry's progress in transitioning to Electronic Health Records (EHR). Based on a survey of 364 provider organizations, the study reveals that more than three-fourths have plans to implement EHR infrastructures, and that 56 percent express confidence in the industry's ability to meet the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) EHR implementation timeline.

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Saving time with Cardio MR (CMR)

At the spring meeting of the German Association for Cardiology (DGK), Siemens Medical Solutions presented a new software tool for magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) especially developed for application in cardiology. In the clinical routine, syngo BEAT reduces MR examinations of the heart to a few mouse clicks – even for patients suffering from arrhythmia. As a result, syngo BEAT provides for faster and more accurate diagnostics and increases efficiency in cardiology.

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Faster, more efficient searching of medical images

A Danish-led research project has made encouraging progress toward using advanced mathematics as the basis of an improved method for indexing and searching medical images in the huge digital databases of clinics and hospitals.

Completed in November 2005, the DSSCV consortium's long-term goal was to contribute to software tools allowing doctors and hospital technicians to quickly search and match X-rays, magnetic resonance images and computed 3D tomography scans, particularly of the craniofacial region.

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NEWS, but not as we know it

European researchers hope to take news agencies into the internet age by commercialising a platform of integrated Web services that can automatically classify, annotate and analyse news stories.

It will mean stories can be defined, on the fly, with a precision greater than a library's card catalogue.

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