Cisco buys Norway’s Tandberg
Cisco has completed its voluntary offer for Norway’s Tandberg, a global leader in video communications. The deal will give Cisco an enhanced collaborative video-conferencing portfolio.
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EC flags benefits of Notts Cisco network
A report has shown that patient waiting times at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust have been cut by a third following the implementation of a Cisco network and telephony system. The trust implemented a medical grade network to underpin wired and wireless communications after identifying communications problems in its emergency department. These were causing delays to […]
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Cisco unified computing in Austria
Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, the largest healthcare provider in Northern Austria, has deployed a Unified Computing System from Cisco. The system will be deployed a data centre that covers two hospitals serving more than 600,000 patients. It will also act as a hosting aggregation point for the region’s existing Medical Data Exchange Solution (MDES), which provides a […]
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Europe launch for Cisco data exchange
Cisco and Austrian software company Tiani Spirit have announced the availability of their new Medical Data Exchange Solution (MDES) in Europe. The MDES enables healthcare providers to securely access patient information regardless of the provider’s location or IT system. It combines Cisco’s Application Extension Platform and Integrated Services Router with Tiani Spirit’s electronic patient management software, […]
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EHI Awards 2009 winners announced
NHS Waltham Forest’s implementation of the RiO community and mental health system emerged as the overall winner of the E-Health Insider Awards in association with BT last night.
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EHI Awards finalists unveiled
Scottish telemedicine trial success
Cisco has released results from a survey of patients taking part in a Scottish telemedicine trial, showing that almost 100% were satisfied with the technology used to remotely assess minor medical conditions. In January 2008, the Scottish Centre for Telehealth joined forces with NHS Scotland and Cisco to run a trial in the emergency department […]
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Vaulting ambition
The Conservatives may give commercial health record platforms a big role in their NHS IT strategy. But how are they doing in the US?
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Wireless days
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Hospital NHS Trust won the best use of wireless healthcare category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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Webinar reveals demand for IT evidence
The Royal College of Nursing’s informatics expert has called for better evidence to convince nurses of the benefits of technology for patient care. Speaking during E-Health Insider’s live video webinar Making Time to Care, Anne Casey said nurses need hard evidence of the benefits that can be achieved. She cited a survey by the RCN […]
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