eHealthNews.EU Portal Digest

eHealthNews.EU Portal Digest

eHealth Action Plan - 1 year of progress
This progress report describes the main results of a first year of
work since the publication of the eHealth Action Plan: activities
undertaken by the European Commission and Member States together.
What if it were possible for every European citizen to select the
precise place where they can receive that healthcare? What if they
were to have the means and the information about Europe's healthcare
organisations and healthcare infrastructure so as to ensure absolutely
their own continuity of care?
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Siemens and BT enter into a global partnership for identity and access
management
Siemens Medical Solutions (Siemens Med) and BT (British
Telecommunications) have signed a worldwide value-added reseller
agreement for the provision of identity and access management services
to global clients. BT has excellent international market access and
Siemens Med is a globally active supplier of a leading identity and
access management suite. The new partnership consolidates the
existing, successful collaborative relationship that the two companies
have enjoyed for many years.
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The CORDIS FP7 Service goes multilingual!
In line with efforts to bring EU information closer to citizens, and
improve access to funding, CORDIS is further extending its boundaries.
Key pages of the CORDIS FP7 Service, the official access point to
funding from the Seventh Framework Programme for research (FP7), are
now available in six languages.
Users will be able to access pages linked to the homepage, and the
individual programmes' homepages, not only in English, but also
German, Spanish, French, Italian and Polish - all with a single
click.
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http :// www .ehealthnews.eu/content/view/582/27/

European Consumers Use of Internet for Pharmaceutical Information
In today's world of fragmented media and channel mix, it is
increasingly difficult to isolate the information sources used by
consumers to research health information and inform healthcare
decision making. This is especially the case across Europe, where
consumers are accessing an expanding range of resources which vary
greatly by country and by region.
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http :// www .ehealthnews.eu/content/view/581/26/

EU pumps EUR 2.9 million into cancer diagnostics project
The European Commission has awarded a grant of EUR 2.9 million to the
COBRED project.
Funded under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), the COBRED project
will aim to find new biomarkers for two of the most common cancers:
colon cancer and breast cancer.
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http :// www .ehealthnews.eu/content/view/580/27/

Royal Philips Electronics will update the market on its Medical
Systems division
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) will update the market
on its Medical Systems division - the foundation of Philips'
professional healthcare business. At the meeting with investors and
financial analysts, Philips explained that its approach to healthcare
- focused on making healthcare simpler, both for medical professionals
and patients - is setting the company apart from the competition, and
is positioning the Medical Systems division for long-term, profitable
growth.
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http :// www .ehealthnews.eu/content/view/579/26/

Esslingen District Clinics get uniform IT structure with ORBIS(TM)
from Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow
and diagnostic imaging solutions, announced that the first steps
towards the comprehensive introduction of its ORBIS(TM) Clinical
Information System (CIS) were successfully completed at the beginning
of April at the Paracelsus hospital in Ruit and the district hospital
in Plochingen.
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http :// www .ehealthnews.eu/content/view/578/26/

TABD Companies Urge Governments to Drive Innovation
The TransAtlantic Business Dialogue (TABD) held its Innovation
Conference Healthcare under the patronage of German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, who has made transatlantic innovation a key tenet of the EU
presidency. The conference, which brought together American and
European participants, including political leaders and scientific
experts, presented four recommendations to improve innovation in
healthcare and healthcare delivery.
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http :// www .ehealthnews.eu/content/view/577/37/

Call for Proposals - ICT Policy Support Programme
The first call for proposals of the ICT Policy Support Programme (or
ICT PSP) opened on 25 May 2007 and will close on 23 October 2007. The
opening of this first call follows the adoption of the Work Programme
for 2007 by the Commission, as well as an Information Day held on 24
May in Brussels.
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http :// www .ehealthnews.eu/content/view/576/28/

Agfa HealthCare introduces ORBIS(TM) in Canada
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow
and diagnostic imaging solutions, today unveiled ORBIS(TM), its
Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS), for the first time
in Canada at the e-Health Conference 2007 (Québec City, Québec, Canada
from Sunday, May 27th to Wednesday, May 30th). The number one choice
for Electronic Patient Records (EPR) in Europe, ORBIS offers a unique
single database structure which integrates all administrative and
clinical data.
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http :// www .ehealthnews.eu/content/view/575/26/

Sincerely,
Ruslan David, MD
eHealthNews.EU Portal & eHealth Directory EU
Administrator/Editor
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