Legally eHealth: Putting eHealth in its European Legal Context
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The term eHealth, although now quite current in Europe and, indeed, throughout the world, still is rather new, making its first appearances in the scientific and policy literature around 1999. Its predecessors, however, date back to the 1960s when the concepts of health informatics and bio-medical computing began to occupy the minds of academic physicists, mathematicians, and medics.
CSW Group in UK's 'Hot 100' for Second Year
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CSW Group is once again ranked in the Real Business/LDC Hot 100 league table, which charts
the UK's fastest-growing privately owned businesses. This follows the award of 'SME
Organisation of the Year' given to CSW at the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS) IT
Awards at the end of last year.
CD-MEDICS Project to Speed Up Diagnosis of Coeliac Disease
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Latest Internet Technology for the Replacement of Animal Experiments
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Developed in close cooperation between Transinsight, Dresden, and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, the knowledge-based semantic search engine www.Go3R.org is now available online. It enables information transparency for the prevention of animal testing.
Finnish National Plan for Implementing On-Line Health Care Services
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The recently completed report is part of the SAINI project (interactive electronic services for citizens) coordinated by the Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra) and involving the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), the National Public Health Institute, the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities, the Finnish Centre for Health Promotion (Tekry) and other operators, companies and financing institutions in health care and information and communications industries.
eHealth and Telemedicine Associations of Germany, Austria and Switzerland Join Forces
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Across Europe and worldwide, telemedicine and telehealth services respond to today's health and social demands, i.e. treatment of chronic patients, support for the quality of life of elderly people living at home and the empowerment of citizens/patients to make healthcare choices. With the evolving European-wide availability of eHealth infrastructures, new opportunities for highly interconnected telemedicine services emerge.
Philips Announces Release of US Study on Home Healthcare Technology and Telehealth
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Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHI) released the final results of a survey conducted by Fazzi Associates of nearly 1,000 home care agencies in the United States. Results of the Philips National Study on the Future of Technology and Telehealth in Home Care show that nearly one third of large agencies are currently using a telehealth system and that industry use of telehealth is expected to double over the next two years, principally as a means of managing patients with chronic disease.
Tri-Continental Foundation of Experts, Open Health Tools, Collaborate on Global Health IT Solutions
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Open Health Tools (OHT) today announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, government-funded organizations and agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States to develop common healthcare IT products and services.
eHealth 2008 (UK) - Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century
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City University, London EC1
This Conference is organized as a meeting point for telecare product vendors, policy makers, government ministers, academics, clinicians and all those involved in electronic & mobile health, to examine and to share ideas contributing to the advancement of telecare into the 21st century.
eHealthNews.EU Portal Research Project - Invitation for Further Collaboration
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This research project is addressed to all eHealthNews.EU Portal readers interested in strengthening the European eHealth domain. The proposed publication is an open invitation for further collaboration in advancing the European eHealth Research and Industrial sectors. The main project topic is "Identification and analysis of the web based platforms and communication technologies role in stimulating the growth of the European eHealth Research and Industrial sectors with continuous monitoring of the International eHealth trends and opportunities".