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Hans Bossink, an experienced medical and healthcare leader, has joined Carestream as Regional General Manager, Europe. He brings a strong knowledge and understanding of the healthcare technology market together with extensive sales management expertise.

A new technology partnership is leading the way in supporting people with learning disabilities and autism to lead more independent and fulfilling lives. Not-for-profit support provider Dimensions is working with Tunstall Healthcare to provide personalised support through home technology.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is working with Diabetizer, a German-based healthcare technology company, to leverage IBM's open platform-as-a-service, Bluemix to build and deploy a first-of-its-kind, cloud-based application that improves care for diabetes patients around the world.

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has reported Q4 sales of EUR 6.5 billion and operational results of EUR 743 million. Healthcare comparable sales were 3% lower. The EBITA margin, excluding restructuring and acquisition-related charges and other items, was 14.8%, down from 19.0% year-on-year.

Digital personalised models, tools and standards with application for some specific clinical targets are currently available. There is however a need for greater integration of patient information, for example of multi-scale and multi-level physiological models with current and historical patient specific data and population specific data, to generate new clinical information for patient management.

Studying the brain activity of blind people, scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are challenging the standard view of how the human brain specializes to perform different kinds of tasks, and shedding new light on how our brains can adapt to the rapid cultural and technological changes of the 21st Century.

11 - 12 May 2015, Riga, Latvia.
What does Europe need to go truly digital when it comes to healthcare? How can we ensure interoperability of mHealth solutions with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for Continuity of Care purposes? These are just some of the questions that the mHealth community in Europe has needed answers to for a long time.