Finding reliable health information online
Healthcare information is abundant online, but it can be hard to know what is current and medically correct. Joe Fernandez speaks to Health on the Net Foundation to see how it approaches the problem.
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OLM and Social Software partner on social care
Social care system specialists OLM Group and Social Software have partnered to develop a new integrated solution covering children’s social care, youth justice and court systems. The companies have piloted their new solution in the London Borough of Newham and claim that the joined-up approach facilitates a holistic view of each child’s record. “By integrating […]
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Life in Europe to become ambient assisted
Philipp Grätzel reports from Berlin on developments in ambient assisted living, a fast-evolving field combining the IT, medicine, social care and housing industries.
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LCM migrate 30TB of data to new system
LCM, Belgium’s largest health insurer, has migrated its mainframe databases to a new information system, with the help of legacy modernisation specialist Anubex. The databases contained data on all patients covered by LCM, equivalent to almost half the population of Belgium. The data was migrated as part of an ongoing initiative from LCM to improve […]
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EU Parliament amends assisted living project
Members of the European Parliament have stressed that the new Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme must be cost effective and respect privacy. The AAL programme is an initiative by the European Parliament to improve the quality of life of older people and help them live independently for longer, through the use of ICT. It is […]
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Belfast gets European Connected Health centre
Belfast, Northern Ireland, is to be the home of a new ‘European Centre for Connected Health’, intended to help test technologies that enable people with chronic conditions live independently at home. NI Health Minister Michael McGimpsey and Economy Minister Nigel Dodds announced the establishment of the centre at last week’s Connected Health Conference, held in […]
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iSoft reaches halfway point on Irish PAS deal
iSoft has reached the halfway point on a £41.5m project to deliver integrated patient management systems to hospitals across Ireland. iSoft is providing its iPM PAS system under the contract. The company announced that it has delivered systems which are now live in 26 hospitals in Ireland, a mixture of acute community and mental health. […]
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EC acts to ease computer-assisted translation
The European Commission has translated a collection of around one million sentences into 22 of the 23 official languages of the European Union, in an initiative designed to promote computer-assisted translation. This, according to the Commission, is the biggest ever collection in so many languages and is now freely available over the internet. Through co-operation […]
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Video assistance devices launched for elderly
A new mobile video assistance technology programme funded by the European Commission’s eTEN programme and designed to aid elderly people to live independently at home is ready for deployment. The Belgian designed Advanced TeleassisTance convErgent NeTwork for chronIc diseAse patieNts and Elders projecT – (ATTENTIANET) – offers elderly people a complete package to keep them […]
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Robosoft showcase robot to help elderly
Robosoft’s Robuter prototype French robotic specialist Robosoft has demonstrated a prototype service robot which can help elderly and handicapped people stay at home. The robot, launched at Microsoft’s Innovation Day in Brussels at the end of 2007, is a home-centric robot, which combines the internet and robotics technology to provide daily-life services to people staying […]
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