eHealth Initiative Releases Results of 2007 Survey on Health Information Exchange
Recently, the multi-stakeholder non-profit eHealth Initiative (eHI) released the results of its 2007 Fourth Annual Survey of Health Information Exchange at the State, Regional and Community Levels, taking stock of 130 community-based efforts designed to improve health and healthcare through the mobilization of health information electronically.
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Transinsight's GoPubMed with Social Networking Features for Biomedical Experts
Biomedical research happens in networks of researchers. Social networking web sites like FaceBook, LinkedIn and Xing use personal networks to establish contacts. On these sites, however, connections must be defined by the users themselves. For the first time, GoPubMed now completely and automatically extracts collaboration networks from millions of biomedical science publications.
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Emerging Trends about European Consumer and Physician Use of New Media
Cybercitizen® Health Europe is a syndicated multi-client study and advisory service focused on key research topics and trends impacting the European consumer health marketplace. The study was fielded online among 4,302 European consumers from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal.
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Magnetic Resonance Scanner Delivers Top Performance in Mummy Test
A historical mummy was the object of an endurance test which Siemens underwent in cooperation with a team of researchers from the University of Zurich to answer the question: Can the new software for magnetic resonance tomographs (MR) provide insight into the anatomy and disease characteristics of the human being, even for those parts of the human body which, even more so for a mummy, contain almost no water?
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New Dimension for Magnetic Resonance Tomography and Vascular Analysis in Grosshadern
The University of Munich Hospital is the first worldwide to implement a newly developed Siemens angiography technology for patient care. In addition, a new magnetic resonance tomography system is celebrating its European premiere. The world's first installed "Artis zeego" is a robot-controlled angiography system that uses X-ray technology and contrast medium to spatially visualize blood vessels.
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CSW Group is SME Organisation of the Year
Oxford-based healthcare IT company, CSW, was awarded the title of 'SME Organisation of the Year' at the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS) IT Awards ceremony last week. The awards, which took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, were presented by BBC news broadcaster Kate Silverton in recognition of excellence, professionalism and innovation in IT.
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Thomson Scientific Launches Thomson Innovation
Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, has launched its new intellectual property research and analysis solution, Thomson Innovation.
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