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ICT Research: The Policy Perspective

ICT for All: Technology Supporting an Inclusive World
In this report produced for the publication series ICT Research: The Policy Perspective, is explored Europe's vision for a society where every individual can make a valuable contribution. Investments in pioneering and commercially focused research will produce information and communication technologies (ICTs) that should help everyone - including the elderly, disabled and marginalised - to fulfil their potential.

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Midlands PCT Uses Mobile to Generate More Than 1,000 Qualified Referrals to Health Checks

iPLATO Healthcare, the leader in mHealth, announced that a smart health promotion campaign delivered in partnership with 24 GP surgeries using iPLATO Patient Care Messaging generated 1,850 qualified referrals to NHS Health Checks in just four weeks.

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CSC Announces European ePrescription Solution to Reduce Medical Errors Whilst Improving Efficiency and Patient Safety

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced a European-wide ePrescription solution. The solution provides national ePrescription services to replace manual prescription processes with a paperless, integrated, computerised system. Designed to reduce prescription and administration errors, CSC's ePrescription solution helps improve the management of medication and prescriptions, resulting in higher levels in the quality of patient care and patient safety.

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Elsevier acquires Collexis

Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of assets from Collexis Holdings, Inc., a leading developer of semantic technology and knowledge discovery software.

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European Commission Welcomes Launch of Supercomputing Infrastructure for European Researchers

The European Commission welcomed the launch of a €500 million initiative which boosts European supercomputer capacities and opens them up to scientists across Europe. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) unites the European Commission and 20 countries across Europe in a unique initiative which will enable researchers to use super fast computers located in other countries to make up to 1000 trillion calculations per second for their research projects.

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A New Interactive Platform on European Health Research

A new online platform named HealthCompetence.eu has been presented at the Information day on FP7 Health Research organised by the European Commission. This new platform includes all projects related to life science and health supported by the European Commission since 2004. Far from being a static database, it aims to present the projects' latest results in terms of technology offers, patents and publications.

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Agfa HealthCare Invites 150 Top-Level Customers to an Exclusive Healthcare Seminar

Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, is attending the World Expo Shanghai in China, where it is hosting a special customer event on June 9th.

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CSC Announces First NHS Acute Trust Goes Live with Lorenzo Release 1.9

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 went live on June 1, 2010 at the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust, with the implementation completed on June 3, 2010.

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Second VPH Industry Day

8-9 September 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
The second VPH Industry Day, organised by the European Network of Excellence for the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH), aims to increase the awareness amongst European Industry of the vision, the concepts, and the concrete technological achievements of VPH-related research.

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Telehealth Revolution Set to Benefit more North Yorkshire Patients

NHS North Yorkshire and York unveiled plans to purchase a further 2,000 Telehealth systems to support patients living with long term health conditions in the area - making it the largest scale Telehealth programme in the UK.

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