WebVMC and Home Telehealth Ltd. Form Partnership in Europe
WebVMC, developer of the RemoteNurse telehealth system that enables 24 hour virtual medical care for remote disease management, has entered into an exclusive partnership with Home Telehealth Ltd., (HTL) one of the United Kingdom's leading providers of telehealth products and managed care services.
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Siemens to Emphasize Emerging Fields of Oncology and Neurology Biomarkers
Siemens Medical Solutions today opened the doors to a new state-of-the-art research facility dedicated exclusively to the development of molecular imaging biomarkers, which will become in vivo diagnostic tools for identifying debilitating diseases such as cancer, and neurological diseases at their earliest stages.
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Intel Corporation is extending his European presence on the eHealth market
Intel Corporation, in conjunction with the IDA Ireland (Industrial Development Agency) have started a research initiative based in Ireland to address the growing wave of ageing citizens in Europe and around the world, according to the recent news article from the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre.
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Leading healthcare companies join to prevent heart attack and stroke
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) has joined forces with AstraZeneca, Merck & Co., BG Medicine and Humana to form the High-Risk Plaque (HRP) Initiative to research and advance the understanding, recognition and management of high-risk plaque, the primary underlying cause of heart attacks.
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Agfa HealthCare timely concludes first phase of ORBIS (TM) project in Italy
Agfa HealthCare announced that it has succesfully installed ORBIS in its Italian pilot site, the Italian Malzoni Hospital (Clinica Medica Malzoni) in Avellino, one of the hospitals of the Malzoni Hospital Group (Gruppo Malzoni). ORBIS is Agfa HealthCare's leading Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS), that manages the entire patient-centric information flow through all hospital departments.
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Vivantes and Agfa HealthCare successfully complete first phase of Germany's hospital IT project
ORBIS (TM) Hospital Information System (HIS) is now in operation in all nine Vivantes healthcare institutions. Ongoing implementation of Picture Archiving and Communication System IMPAX (TM), and ORBIS RIS (Radiology Information System) will complete single source-solution from Agfa HealthCare to replace heterogeneous system arena.
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Siemens and Dräger are expanding their partnership
Dräger acquires 10 percent of Siemens AG shares in its Joint Venture Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG for a sales price of approximately 110 million EUR and increases its stake to 75 percent. At the same time, Siemens AG waves the sales option of its shares originally agreed in the Joint Venture contract and retains its 25 percent holding in the Dräger Medical Group.
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