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13 February 2008

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
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6 February 2008

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
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5 February 2008

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
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31 January 2008

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
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30 January 2008

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
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29 January 2008

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
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23 January 2008

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.
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22 January 2008

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
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10 January 2008

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
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9 January 2008

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
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