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New FP7 eHealth Project - EPILEPSIAE

The mission of EPILEPSIAE Project is to use Information and Communication Technologies to empower the epileptic patients to monitor their own risks and improve their safety in daily life, strengthening their social integration.

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NVIDIA Dramatically Accelerates the Search for a Cure

Stanford University's distributed computing program Folding@home has become a major force in researching cures to life-threatening diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and Parkinson's disease by combining the computing horsepower of millions of processors to simulate protein folding.

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Open eHealth Foundation Defines Development Priorities

The Open eHealth Foundation (OeHF), an open source initiative for the efficient exchange of medical information based on existing standards, is officially registered as a nonprofit organization in Delaware. This milestone enables the foundation (which was launched at HIMMS 2008 by Agfa HealthCare, InterComponentWare and Sun Microsystems) to begin operations.

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Philips Introduces HD15 Ultrasound System

Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced the latest addition to its HD ultrasound family of products. The Philips HD15 ultrasound system provides physicians with superb imaging and workflow performance in a cost-effective system.

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BASF and Transinsight Collaborate in Exploring Alternatives to Animal Testing

BASF SE and Transinsight GmbH, a provider of semantic search technologies for Web 2.0, have agreed to establish close cooperation in the area of semantic analyses to search for alternatives to animal testing. Together with the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, both companies will expand the first specialized semantic search engine for this research area called www.Go3R.org to become a global internet platform.

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Microsoft Amalga for European Health Providers

Microsoft announced the European availability of Microsoft Amalga, the new unified intelligence system that allows hospital enterprises to unlock the power of all their data sitting in isolated clinical, financial and administrative solutions. Microsoft is also implementing a European Amalga early adopter customer programme, in which it will work with health providers to implement and deploy Amalga in various healthcare scenarios.

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Philips' Second Quarter Results 2008 - Healthcare Sector

Philips significantly strengthened its presence in two key emerging markets through the acquisition of Brasilian patient monitoring an critical care company Dixtal Biomedica e Tecnologia and Chinese patient monitoring company Shenzhen Goldway Industrial. This represents a further step towards the creation of a low-cost global supply base for value-segment products.

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New FP7 eHealth Project - preDiCT

The preDiCT project officially launched 1 June 2008, with a mission to model, simulate, and ultimately predict the impact of pharmacological compounds on the heart's rhythm using computer models. This will require advances beyond the current state-of-the-art in:

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Heart Scan with Lower Dosage Possible Using Dual-Source Computed Tomograph

A new study reveals that, with dual-source computed tomography (DSCT), the effective dosage for a heart examination can be significantly lowered, in comparison to conventional computed tomography (CT). The study also demonstrated that stenoses can be diagnosed with the same high accuracy as with invasive x-ray angiography.

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IHTSDO Launches New Global Effort to Build Essential Health Terminology Toolset

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced a global effort to improve access to tools needed to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. This effort is part of an Open Health Tools Charter Project jointly sponsored by IHTSDO, the National Health Service in the UK and Australia's National e-Health Transition Authority.

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