19 February 2009

Europe to double e-health research

Viviane Reding today announced that the European Commission will double funding for e-health research over the next two years. The
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18 February 2009

NHS boss flew to India to check iSoft progress

David Nicholson has continued to take a hands-on role in the multi-billion pound NHS IT programme, flying to India to
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17 February 2009

Carestream gets KBV e-health card certification

Carestream Health has become one of the first healthcare IT companies to receive the KBV certificate, eGK-Release-0, as part of
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16 February 2009

Commission calls for 112 to become multilingual

The European Commission has called for the 112, the common European emergency number, to become multilingual. Since December 2008, EU
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16 February 2009

Sectra signs University Hospital of Amsterdam

Swedish Picture Archiving and Communicatiosn specialist Sectra has announced that it has signed a long-term deal with VUmc University Hospital
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16 February 2009

EHI interview: Peter Neupert

Microsoft’s vice president for health strategy, recently spoke to the US Senate’s HELP committee. Last week, he spoke to EHI
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16 February 2009

Worthing decides to switch off Cerner

Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust has agreed plans to switch off its Cener Millennium electronic records software and move
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13 February 2009

Royal Free boss says CRS problems cost £10m

The boss of the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has blamed the new NHS electronic medical records system – the
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13 February 2009

Hospital uses Twitter for live surgery updates

Micro-blogging service Twitter has been used by US surgeons to provide real-time updates on a live robot-assisted surgical procedure.
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13 February 2009

Wiltshire Health signs deal with System C

System C has signed a five-year contract with a consortium of GPs in Wiltshire providing services in the community that were
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