CompuGroup buys German HIS vendor
CompuGroup has announced its takeover of hospital information systems supplier, Dahm Aktiengesellschaft, better known as Fliegel.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 15.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 15 February 2008 featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and events. Supplier news Agfa reaches 100 million mark on NPfIT PACS Agfa Healthcare has announced that the100 millionth study using a digital picture archiving and communications system (PACS) has been captured by NHS trusts using […]
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Sicily uses Orbis to evaluate EPR plans
Agfa HealthCare’s ORBIS Electronic Patient Record software is to be used in an evaluation of sharing patient information across the Italian region of Sicily. Elements of the Orbis EPR software are being evaluated at the Vincenzo Carvello hospital in Palermo. The 400-bed hospital manages the entire patient flow through all hospital departments. Roberto Lagalla, regional […]
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Ospedale di Lecco hospital group gets Orbis EPR
Italy’s, Ospedale di Lecco hospital group has gone live with the elements of Orbis electronic patient record supplied by Agfa Healthcare. The solution is now live at Monzoni hospital, one of the three hospitals within the Ospedale di Lecco hospital group. Manzoni is a 681 bed hospital, the largest within the group. The hospital has […]
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Agfa-Gevaert appoints new CEO
Jo Cornu, CEO of Agfa-Gevaert NV The board of directors of Agfa-Gevaert has appointed Jo Cornu as chief executive officer of Agfa-Gevaert NV. Cornu succeeds Ludo Verhoeven, who as executive chairman had temporarily assumed the CEO position at the request of the board of directors. The new CEO has extensive international experience in the area of […]
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Helios Hospitals to connect doctors via EPR
Helios hospital group is launching a Germany-wide electronic patient record project to allow electronic communication with referring doctors in private practices. The system is running in two regions already, and a wider roll out to most of the 58 Helios hospitals is in place for next year. Technically, the system is a web service enabling doctors […]
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Industry agrees standardised interface for EPRs
After one year of negotiations – faster than expected – more than 30 health IT companies have agreed on a new standardised interface for electronic patient records (EPR). The agreement will make it easier for EPR-solutions of different vendors to share personal medical data. The new interface was being developed under the umbrella of the […]
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Austrian hospital group migrates to Orbis
The Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK) hospital group, Austria, has implemented its new Agfa HealthCare Orbis health information system as part of its electronic patient record (EPR) project. The group recently switched to the Agfa HealthCare Orbis and Impax picture archiving and communications (PACS) solution to enable patient data to be available at all times and allow […]
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Toulouse hospital first in France to use Agfa HIS
The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Toulouse has become the first French teaching hospital to go-live with Agfa HealthCare’s ORBIS health information system. The deployment follows an initial installation in the digestive surgery department of the hospital, and over a five year period this is expected to be rolled out across the hospital in a bid to deploy […]
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EHI’s industry news round-up 26.10.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 26 October, featuring supplier news, product launches, acquisitions and events. News in Brief St Luke’s Hospital, Oxford installs Agfa PACS St. Luke’s Hospital, based in Headington, Oxford has recently installed Agfa HealthCare’s Web 1000 PACS solution, helping to improve both workflow and patient care. The […]
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