Dräger Delivers Basic Component for Medical Cockpit
Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG has delivered the first basic component for the planned Medical Cockpit of the Infinity® Acute Care System (Infinity ACS) complete system. Hardware Infinity C700 for IT - together with the existing Infinity Delta monitor component displays all relevant patient data at the bedside on a 20" touchscreen.
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Philips Collaborates with International Society of Radiographers and Radiological Technologists
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) and the International Society of Radiographers and Radiological Technologists (ISRRT) announced a unique program to extend healthcare education in Europe, Asia and the South Pacific.
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ROBOSOFT Introduces a New Robuter Aiming at Assisting People at Home
The prototype shows how service robots can help elderly and handicapped people staying at home. It is based on robuLAB10, an off-theshelf mobile platform, and a robuBOX, the generic robotic middleware based on Microsoft® Robotics Studio, that comes with every robot produced by ROBOSOFT: it allows providers of services to customize it and offer various services to their customers.
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eHealth Initiative Releases Results of 2007 Survey on Health Information Exchange
Recently, the multi-stakeholder non-profit eHealth Initiative (eHI) released the results of its 2007 Fourth Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange at the State, Regional and Community Levels, taking stock of 130 community-based efforts designed to improve health and healthcare through the mobilization of health information electronically.
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Transinsight's GoPubMed with Social Networking Features for Biomedical Experts
Biomedical research happens in networks of researchers. Social networking web sites like FaceBook, LinkedIn and Xing use personal networks to establish contacts. On these sites, however, connections must be defined by the users themselves. For the first time, GoPubMed now completely and automatically extracts collaboration networks from millions of biomedical science publications.
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Emerging Trends about European Consumer and Physician Use of New Media
Cybercitizen® Health Europe is a syndicated multi-client study and advisory service focused on key research topics and trends impacting the European consumer health marketplace. The study was fielded online among 4,302 European consumers from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal.
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Magnetic Resonance Scanner Delivers Top Performance in Mummy Test
A historical mummy was the object of an endurance test which Siemens underwent in cooperation with a team of researchers from the University of Zurich to answer the question: Can the new software for magnetic resonance tomographs (MR) provide insight into the anatomy and disease characteristics of the human being, even for those parts of the human body which, even more so for a mummy, contain almost no water?
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