Philips Places Simplicity at the Heart of Cardiac Care
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Solutions offered by Philips can help to reduce the time from discovery of a heart attack to treatment to 90 minutes, the limit recommended by experts, by enabling hospitals to better organize resources throughout the treatment procedure, starting before patients enter their doors.
T-Systems Dialog Forum for Health - Experts Discuss New Solutions for Resource Optimization
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T-Systems is supporting dialog in the healthcare sector and invited guests to an expert panel titled "Hospitals - A Bottomless Pit?". In the plenum, invited experts discussed solutions for optimizing resources and gave recommendations on how to handle future health sector reforms.
Smart Textiles are Tackling Some of the Toughest Challenges
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Boost Biosystems Creates New Initiatives
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Biosystems technology, the by-product of biology and microsystems components interfacing, addresses modern biotechnology and medicine concerns in developed countries. For its part, the EU-funded project Boost Biosystems seeks to fuel cooperation between academia and industry in the cross-disciplinary field of biosystems technologies in the ScanBalt BioRegion, the life science metacluster in the Baltic Sea region.
Philips and King's College London to Collaborate on Research into Heart Disease
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Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) has announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a five-year research collaboration with Kings College London. Under the multi-million Euro agreement, Philips and King's College London's Division of Imaging Sciences will develop new medical imaging research projects with a particular focus on cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology.
Online Direct Webcasting of the ICT-BIO 2008 Event
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For those who could not join the ICT-BIO 2008 in Brussels can still benefit from the high level speakers' presence and discussions via the webcasting put in place. The conference will take place over 2 days. Each day will start with a plenary session featuring high-level policy speakers including EU Commissioners, prominent scientists and international funding agency representatives from the EU, US and beyond.
Innovation in the eHealth Industry at World of Health IT
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Top executives from some of the world's leading vendor organisations will debate the state of innovation in the eHealth industry at World of Health IT, which is being held in Copenhagen on November 4-6. This will take place at the 2008 Strategies and Visions of Industry Leaders session, which will draw on the experiences of some of Europe's leading technology executives offering insight into how the industry views the future development of the European eHealth marketplace.
Philips' Third Quarter Results 2008 - Healthcare Sector
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Healthcare and Lighting maintained solid growth in much tougher markets, with sales up 5% and 6% respectively on a comparable basis. Commercial delivery of Philips' cutting-edge Brilliance iCT scanner continued, with recent installations in healthcare facilities in the US, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.
XIRING and SCM Microsystems Jointly Develop Mobile Terminals for German eHealth Market
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XIRING (NYSE Alternext: ALXIR), a European leader in security solutions for remote transactions, and SCM Microsystems (NASDAQ: SCMM; Prime Standard: SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, today announced their close collaboration to develop mobile eHealth smart card terminals for the new generation German healthcare system.
Agfa-Gevaert Discloses Details Regarding the Belgian Part of a Global Cost Savings Program
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As announced on the occasion of the publication of the second quarter results, Agfa-Gevaert is planning an important reduction of its operational costs. The worldwide savings program has now been finalized. Its goal is to reduce the Group's operational costs by 120 million Euro before end of 2010. This savings program mainly concerns a reduction of the sales and general administration costs.