Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how the company is planning to tackle the UK hospital electronic patient record market.
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Philips acquire Health Watch medical alert service
Health Watch Holdings, a US-based national provider of personal response systems, has been acquired by Philips in a $130m (£65m) deal and will be merged with the company’s Lifeline medical alert service. Health Watch offer a variety of Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS) and have been partnering with hospitals, home care agencies and municipalities across […]
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Systems Solution get EPS clinical authority certificate
Irish pharmacy specialists Systems Solutions have passed Connecting for Health’s Release 1 compliance for its electronic prescriptions service (EPS) product QicScript. QicScript is an EPS system which provides the management control for a pharmacy business. It has advanced features designed to manage today’s most important pharmacy issues, and enables pharmacists to reduce their costs and […]
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Meet the suppliers: Ascribe
EHI talks to Stephen Critchlow, head of healthcare IT group Ascribe, about his clinical background and future plans for consolidation.
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Ascribe acquires HEIS in £6.5m deal
Healthcare solutions group, Ascribe, has acquired clinical and management information system supplier, HE Information Systems, in a £6.492m deal designed to enable Ascribe to “restructure its efforts in line with the opportunities offered by the delays in the National Programme for IT.” HE Information Systems (HEIS) supplies software to 21 hospitals within the NHS, many […]
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Germany’s team
The World Cup is not Frankfurt’s only major event this summer. Phillipp Grätzel reports from ITeG, the German healthcare IT industry conference.
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Crossroads for Kodak
Jon Hoeksma talks to Kevin Hobert, senior vice president at Eastman Kodak Company and president of the Health group, about Kodak’s future plans.
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Ardentia acquires InFocus Health
Healthcare performance management software provider Ardentia has announced the acquisition of InFocus Health, whose information analysis solution Hippo21 is used predominantly in Wales, Scotland and the South of England. The sale brings together two businesses both offering business intelligence products to the health sector and Ardentia says the two companies will continue to operate separately. […]
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GE Healthcare completes acquisition of IDX
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, has completed its acquisition of health IT specialist IDX Systems Corporation. The deal $1.2 billion (£681 million) was first announced in September last year. IDX is one of the key software providers to the English NHS National Programme for IT, in which, as a sub-contractor to BT, […]
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Cash injection
After GE’s purchase of IDX, are more medical systems companies eyeing up the healthcare IT market? Industry analyst James MacPherson investigates.
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