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Allscripts FollowMyHealth Achieve Now Generally Available

Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) has announced the market launch and general availability of Allscripts FollowMyHealth™ Achieve, a consumer-friendly, patient engagement innovation intended to mobilize and empower patients as active partners in the management of their care.

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Carestream Ships 15,000th Vita CR System

Carestream's continuous innovation in CR technology has enabled thousands of facilities across the globe to convert to high-quality digital imaging with CARESTREAM Vita CR and Point-of-Care systems. The company announced it has shipped its 15,000th Vita CR System and has installed almost 30,000 tabletop CR systems since the company's first Point-of-Care system became available.

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Open Calls with Relevance to ICT for Health

A series of calls in Horizon 2020 under Societal Challenge "Health, demographic change and wellbeing" (SC1) with relevance to ICT for Health (eHealth) are now open: PHC-21-2015, PHC-25-2015, PHC-27-2015, PHC-28-2015, PHC-29-2015.

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Nine European Hospitals Receive Awards in Rome

The analytics unit of HIMSS Europe awarded nine European hospitals with a Stage 6 Award during an awards ceremony at the annual CIO Summit, taking place in Rome from 6 - 7 October.

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First Annual COCIR eHealth Summit 2014

18 - 19 November 2014, Brussels, Belgium.
The future of healthcare in Europe is uncertain. Healthcare faces the inevitability of having to find ways to deliver more services of higher quality at contained costs to meet increased demands for services and new 'consumer' expectations.

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Software Launched to Dramatically Reduce Time GPs Spend on Third Party Reporting

GPs are set to be offered new software that creates third party reports and automatically redacts non-permitted information from patient records before they are sent, electronically, to third parties. Provided at no cost to GP practices across the UK and Northern Ireland, Intelligent GP Reporting - iGPR, developed by Niche Health and Inchware,

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Today All Roads Lead to Rome

6 - 7 October 2014, Rome, Italy (HIMSS Europe CIO Summit)
7 - 8 October 2014, Rome, Italy (The European Telemedicine Conference)
Over the next three days, the European healthcare IT community will gather in Rome to discuss how healthcare providers and specialists can improve the quality of patient care.

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Isn't it Time that UK Family Doctors Embraced Email Services for their Patients?

The UK government sees the use of email contact and e-consultations as a means of boosting patient access to primary care and is piloting these services in 20 general practices in England. It has mandated email communication for repeat prescriptions and appointment booking in the latest general practice contract and stipulated that patients should be able to communicate electronically with their health and social care team by 2015.

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ClinicalKey Enhanced to Think the Way Clinicians Do

Elsevier, the world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, has launched an enhanced version of its flagship clinical resource, ClinicalKey, following extensive research on the search behaviours of clinicians.

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Health Fabric Supports NHS England in Digital Transformation Challenge

Digital health experts Health Fabric are backing the drive for digital transformation in the NHS with extensive support for the 2014/15 NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes and the winners of the digital patient and clinician engagement category. This category challenges NHS organisations to show how they can use information, communications or diagnostic technologies to connect patients and clinicians as partners in their care.

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