Nuance releases Dragon Medical 10
Nuance Communications has released the latest version of its Dragon Medical 10 speech recognition software for the healthcare sector, in the UK and Ireland. The firm says the new software is nearly twice as fast as the previous version and offers improved accuracy. Dragon Medical 10 allows doctors to create medical documents and e-mails, search […]
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Agfa-Gevaert Healthcare’s sales falter
Full year results from Belgium’s Agfa-Gavaert show that sales fell 8.6% to €1.23 billion in 2008. Included in the decline was a second half of the year slow-down in Agfa HealthCare’s sales, which account for 43% of Agfa’s total sales. For the whole of 2008 Agfa HealthCare’s sales reached €1.39 billion. But over the fourth […]
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Antwerp selects Agfa for cardiovascular imaging
The University of Antwerp Hospital has awarded a contract with Agfa to provide it with enhanced cardiovascular diagnostic imaging and reporting. Agfa HealthCare will install its IMPAX Cardiovascular solution, providing enterprise-wide access to cardiology patient records to meet the high volume diagnostic needs of the department. The deal is for eight-years and includes maintenance and […]
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Carestream chosen for Israel-wide RIS-PACS
Carestream Health has been awarded a €19.4m ($25m) country-wide contract for a RIS-PACS project across Israel’s Clalit Health Services. The Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), and Radiology Information System (RIS) and central archiving solution will be deployed across all Clalit’s hospitals and imaging centers in Israel. Clalit Health Services is a health management organisation […]
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Philips and King’s College to collaborate
Philips and King’s College London have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on research into heart disease over the next five years.
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Two Swedish hospitals choose Sectra PACS
Sectra has signed a five-year contract with Region Skåne regarding a digital solution for managing and archiving radiology images (PACS).
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Siemens wins €28m Korean contract
Siemens has announced that it has secured a €28m contract to equip eight Korean hospitals with medical systems, in what it claims is one of the biggest orders of its kind in the medical industry worldwide. The company will equip the radiology, nuclear medicine, oncology, cardiology and emergency departments of the eight hospitals that make […]
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GE’s Centricity cardiology system wins award
GE Healthcare’s Centricity cardiovascular information system has won Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 ‘product line leadership’ award. The GE CIS system recognised is Centricity Carddas Xi². The CIS is designed to meet cardiologist’s needs for advanced data management and PACS capabilities in a common infrastructure for cardiology and radiology. According to GE Cardass provides a single […]
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Biotronik launches cardiac telecare system
Biotronik Lumax 540 German telemedicine device specialist, Biotronik, has launched a new home monitoring device offering remote, wireless advanced patient management and providing daily protection for patients with life-threatening cardiac conditions. Biotronik’s ‘Home Monitoring’ system has been designed to enable continuous automatic daily data transmission of the patient’s cardiovascular status. Once wirelessly connected, the information […]
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iSoft installs order comms in Malta
Doctors and other clinical staff at Malta’s new Mater Dei Hospital can now order laboratory tests and x-rays online and view results and reports using iSoft’s order communication software. The systems were recently installed at the hospital under a contract renewal for iSoft’s patient management system. The renewal, which was agreed in May 2007, has […]
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