German industry group publishes telemedicine standards
Leading German electronic association the VDE has published a new set of standards for telemedicine to spur the development of telecare and telemonitoring. A series of recommendations are set out in the new telecare standards, addressing both the technical and organisational issues of telemonitoring, and may lead to the development of quality labels for telecare […]
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Finnish company trials cardiac telemedicine
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed remote healthcare services that allow patients to be treated globally, irrespective of the solutions provided by hardware and data system suppliers. In Finland, the first trial services for treating cardiac patients and patients suffering from chronic illnesses have been promising. A VTT spokesperson told E-Health Europe: “Remote […]
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Southampton City to use cardiac telemedicine
Southampton City PCT is to begin use of a telemedicine electrocardiogram interpretation service to give expert cardiology reporting for patients in clinics.
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Remote monitoring first for Amsterdam hospital
St. Lucas Andreas Hospital has become the first in the Netherlands to introduce a remote monitoring system for cardiac patients into its daily operations.
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Growth predicted in cardiology information systems
The next big growth area for IT systems in radiology departments across Europe is predicted to be dedicated cardiology information systems. A new report sizes the cardiology information systems market in Europe at €18.7 million in 2006, and predict it will grow to €58 million by 2013. Analysts Frost and Sullivan claim that after the […]
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CSC reach 600 SystmOne deployments
CSC have reached 600 installations of SystmOne GP system within the North, Midlands and East (NME) Programme for IT. TPP, the supplier of the SystmOne software, is working with CSC, local service provider to the NME Programme for IT, to provide an integrated primary care solution, SystmOne GP, to GPs in the cluster. TPP also supplies […]
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Greater Manchester extends telemedicine ECG service
The Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network have successfully piloted a new telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch to provide expert cardiology reporting for patients and will now roll the system out to a total of almost 150 practices. The system allows 12-lead ECGs to be carried out in the GP practice by a doctor […]
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New telemedicine network in Bavaria
The Southern German state of Bavaria has announced the setup of a new major hospital telemedicine network that aims to improve the care for children with inborn cardiac defects. Within the next few months, nine regional hospitals in Bavaria and one in Austria will be connected electronically to the German Heart Centre in Munich, one […]
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Carestream expand eHealth business
Carestream Health has announced that it will be expanding the role of its eHealth Managed Services Business, which is dedicated to the protection, communication, sharing and distribution of patient information for healthcare institutions. The company are expanding the role of the organisation to include a range of services aimed at providing healthcare customers with secure, […]
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NHS Choices website launched
The Department of Health has launched the new NHS Choices website, replacing the previous NHS.uk website. The new website, which stays at the same http://www.nhs.uk web address, aims to personalise healthcare and provide information that will ‘allow patients to make meaningful choices about when and where to receive their treatment.’ The new website goes under […]
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