Leading global brand consultancy, Interbrand, has again teamed up with BusinessWeek to publish their annual ranking of the Best Global Brands by brand value. Now in its sixth year, the Best Global Brands report identifies the top 100 global brands that have managed to create and sustain strong performance in today's competitive market.
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Study identifies barriers to SME participation in framework programme
Barriers still remain to the full participation of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the framework programme (FP) in general and the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme in particular, according to a new policy paper by EFPConsulting and Empirica.
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Folktandvården saves time and money with text messages
In autumn 2003 a Swedish county council introduced TietoEnator's mobile platform Instant Choice Response (ICR) for sending reminders regarding dental appointments by text message. A year later the number of missed appointments had already fallen by 16 percent. A number that is continuing to fall each month, explains Sven-Olof Andersson, financial manager at Folktandvården (the Swedish public dental care service) in Sörmland.
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Personal Health Record LifeSensor and Health Portal Onmeda to cooperate
InterComponentWare (ICW), a leading international eHealth specialist, and Onmeda, one of Germany's leading health portals and provider of top-quality medical content, have arranged a cooperation concerning content and distribution: Users of the LifeSensor personal health record will get access to plain but substantiated medical information in the future.
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Siemens supports the founding of the first "European Institute of Molecular Imaging"
Siemens Medical Solutions (Med) wants to accelerate leading-edge research in Germany. To this end, the company became heavily involved in the foundation of the first "European Institute of Molecular Imaging - EIMI" at the Westphalian Wilhelms University Muenster, Germany.
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eHIT leverages mobile technologies to enhance remote self-care services
eHIT Health Gateway platform offers a mobile solution to collect measurements directly from the measuring devices and seamlessly transfer the collected data to the healthcare personnel for further analysis. According to the type of monitoring instrument used, measured data are easily transferred to the patient's mobile device via Bluetooth, infrared or cable connection.
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Potocnik calls on industry to help identify market needs
European industrial leaders met members of the European Commission on 5 July to discuss the future of the European Technology Platform initiatives. Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik outlined the value that the Commission places on these large-scale initiatives, but asked for leaders to search the road ahead and try to anticipate market needs.
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