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Sweden: Overcoming Backlog in Diagnosing Osteoporosis
In Sweden, 70,000 fractures are caused by osteoporosis every year. The disease is costly, resulting in expenditures of approx. SEK 4.6 billion each year. Osteoporosis has the potential of being diagnosed conveniently, and treated...[more]
German Competence Platform for Ambient Assisted Living
The project consortium optimAAL has developed a competence platform for the development and introduction of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research...[more]
Personal Health Record Access Going Mobile at Kaiser Permanente
In the latest move towards providing increasingly ubiquitous and mobile access to health records, US healthcare organisation Kaiser Permanente has released a new app for Android devices to give their patients mobile access to its...[more]
Health ICT: more Investment Required to Improve Delivery of Care
COCIR published, mid-January 2012, the results of a survey conducted in 2010 among European acute care hospitals on the availability, use, and investment plans towards 2015 for health information and communication technologies...[more]
Online Health Searches Differ According to Devices in 2011 Surveys
Two end-of-year surveys of the top searches for health information show interesting differences between searches conducted on mobile devices and those via more “traditional” methods. They also show marked differences between the...[more]
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