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Spain
University of Granada researchers have developed a software tool that makes an accurate estimation of the risk that a person has to suffer a heart disease. In addition, this software tool allows the performance of massive risk estimations, i.e. it helps to estimate the risk that a specific population group has of suffering a heart condition....
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IBM
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM have agreed to collaborate on the development of a powerful tool built upon IBM Watson in order to provide medical professionals with improved access to current and comprehensive cancer data and practices. The resulting decision support tool will help doctors everywhere create individualised...
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Sectra
The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg has invested in the Sectra Visualisation Table. Gothenburg thus becomes the second Swedish University in a short period of time to reinforce its medical training by acquiring Sectra’s visualisation table. The visualisation table at the University of Gothenburg will be used by students...
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Aperio
Aperio, provider of digital pathology systems, announced a strategic collaboration with Dell to create the world's first scalable, secure medical cloud network for Pathology. Through its secure cloud-based Unified Clinical Archive solution, Dell manages nearly five billion medical images and studies for healthcare organisations. Now, Dell...
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Data Privacy in a Wider Perspective of Risk Management
Data privacy should be seen in a wider perspective of risk management and governance. Due to recent events (e.g. the financial crisis), governance and risk management are hot topics for media coverage, especially within the financial sector. However, these topics are also high on the agenda in the boardrooms of private companies in the corporate...
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Data Ownership & Protection Issues
Technological advances have created great opportunities for society to develop new products and services, and to communicate and share data. A tremendous amount of ubiquitous computational power and online services are used every day as a normal commodity. These new facilities allow data storage and exchange of information anytime and anywhere,...
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Are You Optimising... Your Capital Equipment Investment?
Hospitals can no longer afford to let the “squeaky wheel” or departmental politics drive capital equipment decisions. Rather, with CESP, the perils of opinionbased investments are replaced with qualitative and comprehensive analyses. Hospital executives can now make better-informed decisions because the provided data was validated and weighted,...
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Technology horizons: Digital radiography
The emergence of digital radiography has altered the face of radiography in the recent past. It has offered a new standard for digital x-ray image capture. DR technology has brought about a transition from film-based image capture to direct digital image capture that can be previewed immediately after exposure. This optimised workflow provided by DR...
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Implementing Lossy Compression
Canada is implementing a network of large data repositories designed to store all diagnostic imaging studies generated in hospitals and clinics across the country. There will be 18 such storage units covering all provinces, called DI-r (Digital Images Repositories). The goal of this project is to make all imaging studies available to healthcare professionals,...
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The Spanish Healthcare System
In 1998 the Sistema Sanitario Público (public health service) brought in an official mandate for both doctors and patients outlining the service to which they are entitled, explained in the Carta de Derechos y Deberes (Charter of Rights and Obligations). Management The national system has been decentralised since 2002, which has given the regional...
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