Today, the health sector faces new challenges, from the ageing of the population to the increase in chronic illnesses, the growing shortage of healthcare staff and the reorganization of health systems around the world. To help traditional health systems to evolve, Orange has been working for the past 10 years to pave the way for new solutions in the e-health field, thanks to the strong level of innovation within its teams.
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CSC Achieves Gold Ranking in Business in the Community's 10th Corporate Responsibility Index
CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that it has achieved a Gold ranking in Business in the Community's (BITC) 2012 Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI), the UK's leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility.
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Carestream Takes the Loire Region in France a Step Closer to the eHealth Revolution
One of the first medical imaging data archiving and sharing projects in France using CARESTREAM Vue Cloud PACS and Vue Cloud Archive is now operational. Data is hosted at the Roanne NumeriParc secure data centre in the Loire Region (south-east of France), and built around the Axione high-speed telecommunications network.
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Tech-savvy Baby Boomers to Drive Demand for eHealth
Tech savvy, well-informed baby boomers - "the power of the crowd" - will drive the adoption of ehealth, according to a new report from KPMG International. The report is based on in-depth interviews with ehealth executives representing 15 countries, as well as insights from KPMG's global healthcare partners.
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IBM to Collaborate in Applying Watson Technology to Help Oncologists
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have agreed to collaborate on the development of a powerful tool built upon IBM Watson in order to provide medical professionals with improved access to current and comprehensive cancer data and practices.
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GE & Partners Announce Winners of the First Stage of $100 Million "healthymagination Cancer Challenge"
GE (NYSE: GE) announced five innovation award winners as part of the first stage of its $100 million "GE healthymagination Cancer Challenge." More than 500 ideas from 40 countries were submitted, sparking robust conversations among more than 200 academic institutions and researchers on the Challenge's open innovation platform.
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50th UK syngo.via Milestone at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital has become the 50th hospital in the UK to install syngo®.via from Siemens Healthcare. The advanced client-server application is initially being used with a newly installed SOMATOM® Definition Flash CT for the swift collation, pre-processing and interpretation of clinical images.
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