European Observatories Network
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- Category: Research
The European Commission is interested in creating a network of organisations interested in the analysis, measurement and spread of good practice in Europe, particularly in the field of eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth.
Three Western Balkan countries and Turkey join FP7
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- Category: Research
In gaining 'associated status', the signatory countries will now be able to participate in all the FP7 calls for proposals, including those opened since the beginning of the year.
IBM contributes software that predicts spread of emerging infectious diseases
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IBM announced that it has made available an advanced software technology that can help predict the transmission of diseases across countries and around the globe to the open source community. The tool will aid scientists and public health officials in understanding and planning more efficient responses to health crises, ultimately providing new tools for protecting population health.
A novel ontology-based biomedical search engine
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- Category: Industry
- retrieves PubMed abstracts for your search query,
- detects terms from the Gene Ontology (GO) and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) in the abstracts,
- displays the subset of the GO and MeSH relevant to the keywords, and
- allows you to browse the ontologies and display only papers containing specific GO and MeSH terms.
ScanBalt Forum 2007
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The ScanBalt Forum 2007 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 4-5 October, 2007. The focus of this year's event will be science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship.
The focus of ScanBalt Forum 2007 lies on science innovation and bio-entrepreneurship, a field of distinction for Göteborg region.
Hitachi in Health Care
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For decades the Hitachi name in life sciences and health care has been associated with innovation and medical breakthroughs. Through a diverse group of companies, Hitachi provides a wide range of solutions to these critical markets. It is a Hitachi company that has pioneered the way in breakthrough technologies such as proton beam therapy, DNA sequencers and applied medical biotechnology including intelligent operating rooms.
State of Developing Electronic Patient Summaries in European Union Member States and Beyond
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The report analyses the current state of developing electronic patient summaries in European Union Member States and beyond. It highlights the benefits of such summaries and also the difficulties that need to be overcome to make use of patient summaries in different countries.
Patient Summaries are a key component for eHealth roadmaps in several countries.
Palpable technology helps rehabilitate children with different abilities
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One of the outcomes of the European research project PalCom is a new technology for rehabilitation children with Down's syndrome, autism or other kinds of physical and cognitive impairment.
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust goes live with new NPfIT compliant EPR system
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New online information service puts patients in charge
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- Category: Research
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt today unveiled a new website, NHS Choices, which aims to personalise healthcare and provide information that will allow patients to make meaningful choices about when and where to receive their treatment.
NHS Choices is an information service fit for the 21st century - a resource that gives patients authoritative medical information and enables patients and carers to make better, more informed choices about their health and wellbeing.