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GECAMed, First Luxembourgish Software to Obtain IHE Conformity

GECAMed, the medical office management software, developed by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and widely used by Luxembourgish healthcare professionals, has successfully passed IHE profile conformance testing.

MyAirCoach: Involving Patients to Develop a Mobile System to Self-manage Asthma

Despite the wide availability of asthma therapies, many people with asthma still experience lots of symptoms impacting significantly on their quality of life. In line with this year's World Asthma Day theme "You can control your asthma", myAirCoach, a leading pan-European project is recruiting patients to develop a monitoring device which

New Gold Standard Established for Open and Reproducible Research

A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new gold standard for openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the more than 200GB of data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest results - an unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publication.

Text Message Reminders Boost Breast Cancer Screening Attendance

Women who received a text message reminding them about their breast cancer screening appointment were 20 per cent more likely to attend than those who were not texted, according to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer*. Researchers, funded by the Imperial College Healthcare Charity, trialled text message reminders for women aged 47-53 years old who were invited for their first appointment for breast cancer screening.

iManageCancer Survey: Your Opinion Counts

Would you like to contribute to the future of cancer treatment in technology? iManageCancer project is trying to find out how mobile healthcare (mHealth) and serious games might help people with chronic illnesses and in particular cancer. Significant improvements due to cancer research have led to more cancer patients being cured, and very many more enabled to live with their condition.

How to Move Telemedicine from Pilot to Scale

What is needed to deploy telemedicine? The right context, involvement of the key people, good planning and sound "running" of the process. The Momentum Blueprint, published today in its final version, offers critical success factors and performance indicators that help decision makers to scale up healthcare services from a distance through information technology.

Scientists Map Brains of the Blind to Solve Mysteries of Human Brain Specialization

Studying the brain activity of blind people, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are challenging the standard view of how the human brain specializes to perform different kinds of tasks, and shedding new light on how our brains can adapt to the rapid cultural and technological changes of the 21st Century.

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GECAMed, First Luxembourgish Software to Obtain IHE Conformity

MyAirCoach: Involving Patients to Develop a Mobile System to Self-manage Asthma

New Gold Standard Established for Open and Reproducible Research

Text Message Reminders Boost Breast Cancer Screening Attendance

iManageCancer Survey: Your Opinion Counts

How to Move Telemedicine from Pilot to Scale

Scientists Map Brains of the Blind to Solve Mysteries of Human Brain Specialization

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