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For two decades the European Commission has contributed to the improvement of healthcare by supporting the research and development of new technologies that can change the way we get health treatment. With i2010, the Commission's strategic framework to create a European Information Society for growth and jobs, the focus is now on meeting the health care needs of our ageing population.

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Elsevier is Expanding eClinical Solutions in Europe

With a deep understanding of healthcare workflow and more than a century of experience as a global medical publisher, Elsevier is increasing its efforts to provide interactive clinical reference and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to new markets in Europe.

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Patient Satisfaction with Healthcare Systems: Do Different Funding Models Lead to Different Results?

A new study from Picis, the leading provider of information systems for the emergency department, operation rooms and intensive care units of hospitals, reveals perceptions of whether different healthcare funding models lead to significantly different levels of patient satisfaction. The Picis poll sought the views of more than 4,000 people across the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Spain.

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Agfa-Gevaert Announced Third Quarter Results - HealthCare Segment

Agfa-Gevaert today announced its third quarter results. Including currency effects, Group sales declined 6.0 percent to 741 million Euro. Excluding currency effects, the decline was limited to 1.7 percent. The effects of the deteriorating economic conditions became more visible, both in Agfa Graphics and Agfa HealthCare.

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InforSense Collaborates with Industry Innovators to Enable Virtual Drug Discovery

InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of next generation business and scientific intelligence tools, has successfully completed a pilot project at world leading pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to enable virtual drug discovery through virtual outsourcing of data analysis via secure Grid technology.

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Innovative Solution for Integrated Electronic Health Record (IEHR)

MedXchange is operational since 2000 with its web-based product and has acquired a long and strong experience with its unique multilingual cross-border application of Integrated Electronic Health Record (IEHR). A very quick and reliable way of medical data exchange is offered 24h/7d by the real-time management innovative system with main focus on practical needs.

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ICT Standards in the Health Sector: Current Situation and Prospects

This new study about ICT standards in the health sector by empirica provides a structured overview of eHealth standards development and uptake in a European context, paying special attention to standards for electronic health records. The study was commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate General Enterprise and Industry and explores the current status of ICT health standardisation processes and their future potential. Key findings include the following:

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Collexis Announces Market Leader Position in Scientific Grant Analysis

Collexis Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CLXS), a leading developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced today that they are becoming the global leader in grant analysis and grant management tools in the sciences.

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Two Good eHealth Cases in Educational Sessions at WoHIT 2008

As Good eHealth's main objective is to identify and communicate on good practices and their associated benefits, Good eHealth plays a prominent role in the educational sessions on the program of The World of Health IT 2008 Conference & Exhibition (WoHIT 2008). A good opportunity to take a close look at a number of interesting eHealth cases from the Knowledge Base.

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Call for Papers for the ICMCC Event 2009

1-3 June, 2009 Psychology Business School, University of Westminster, London, UK
Dealing with medical and care compunetics, the field of social, societal and ethical implications of computing and networking, ICMCC decided to focus the 2009 Event on Patient 2.0 Empowerment, more specific on Electronic Health Records (EHR) and secondarily, the connection between EHR and Digital Homecare.

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