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Achieving Clinical and Operational Excellence: How to Establish Healthcare Service Line Costs

Not knowing the clear direction that the healthcare reform initiatives will take over the next several years, healthcare organizations remain under intense pressure to reduce costs and repair inefficiencies. Most organizations understand that to successfully execute, they have to manage cost and key performance measurements across business lines. Yet, few are able to attain this. Healthcare provider organizations find themselves in the middle of market pressures from payers, the government and competing for market share and doctors.

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Low Cost Wireless ECG Cardiac Monitor can Save Lives and Cut Healthcare Costs

Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA (OSE: NOD) today announces that British medical services startup, Isansys Lifecare Limited, has announced the world's first commercially-available, clinical-grade, wireless cardiac monitor to support low cost continuous ECG heart monitoring.

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Cisco Healthcare Germany selects Ekahau as its Strategic RTLS Partner

Ekahau, the worldwide leader in high performance Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), announced a strategic cooperation with Cisco Healthcare in Germany. Ekahau is already a member of the Cisco Developer Network (CDN) and Ekahau RTLS solution is CCX- (Cisco Compatible Extensions) and Cisco Assurewave -certified.

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Philips Announces New Premium Wireless and Mobile Radiography Solutions

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced the third full release of DigitalDiagnost, a customizable radiography system with a wireless portable detector that can be moved between the table and vertical stand and used for free exposures.

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Solutions 4 Health Launches Application for Smoking Cessation in the UK

Solutions 4 Health has announced the launch of a new smoking cessation application built on Microsoft HealthVault, a privacy and security enhanced citizen health platform. The telehealth application, called smokefreelife, provides smokers with the support needed to quit, through personal interaction provided by trained smoking cessation advisors.

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Telemedicine: An Essential Technology for Performed Healthcare

Healthcare reform in dozens of countries, including France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Chile, Canada, Taiwan, China and the United States, is generating dramatically new approaches to care delivery. Although the details and the level of maturity of the efforts differ across countries, the overall trends are universal: they reflect the need to contain costs while improving access and care quality, to overcome a shortage of providers, and to take care of a growing sicker and ageing population.

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Flexiant Providing Cloud Platform for E-Health Pilot

Scottish cloud software and services provider Flexiant is providing a cloud platform for a research project that promises NHS patients complete control over their medical records and the power to decide who has access to their data.

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The Future of Connected Health Devices

Health device makers, to date, have primarily targeted consumers who are either fitness focused or chronically ill. But between these two extremes sits a large, fragmented and often overlooked population who seek better information to effectively manage their health. Our research suggests that successful solution providers will approach this market opportunity as an ecosystem of partners - with an integrated solution that extends beyond the device itself. By plugging the information gap for these consumers, solution providers can help fuel healthcare innovation.

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Tunstall's Telecare Solutions Provide a Life-Saving Service for People with Hearing Difficulties

Families across Merseyside who are affected by hearing loss or impairment are benefiting from life-saving telecare solutions that enhance fire safety in the household and promote independent living.

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Philips Expands its Women's Healthcare Portfolio

Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) has agreed to acquire the mammography equipment product line of Sectra AB (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: SECT B), a Swedish provider of medical systems and secure communication systems.

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