Siemens works with Hospital Clinic, Barcelona
Siemens Healthcare has signed an agreement with Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, to integrate its diagnostic, imaging and information technology systems. The company and Hospital Clinic will initially focus on three areas – liver fibrosis, foetal medicine and colon cancer – and work together to develop new working practices to increase the early detection of disease […]
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Google joins Continua e-health alliance
Google has joined Continua Health Alliance, the Intel-led international coalition working to develop standards to enable interoperable e-health products and services for the personal health market.
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Medting creates global image repository
A Spanish medical informatics consultant is enlisting researchers and practitioners in an attempt to create what might be the first truly global online repository of medical images and multimedia for physicians. “The idea is to create a Web community,” says Miguel Cabrer, president of Medting.com. The interactive site, formerly known as MDPIXX, also includes platforms […]
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CompuGroup maintains growth
German health-IT vendor CompuGroup has posted a strong set of results showing revenues up by 12% over the first half of the previous year to €94m. However, taking into account higher staff costs, income tax charges and depreciation charges, earnings were down. The company said it remained confident of hitting its revised forecast for €225m […]
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Kaiser signs up for Microsoft’s HealthVault
Kaiser Permanente, the largest US nonprofit health maintenance organisation, has announced it will participate in Microsoft’s personal health record initiative linking Kaiser’s existing My Health Manager system to the HealthVault platform. The partnership, announced Monday, will begin with a pilot project open to Kaiser’s 156,000 employees, which will run until November. Assuming the pilot is […]
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Swiss clinic group implements MPI from ICW
Swiss private clinic group, Hirsladen, has installed a master patient index system supplied by German e-health specialist InterComponentWare. The master patient index (MPI) system will support the integration of heterogeneous hospital systems used in the 13 private clinics and 100 centres of excellence and specialised institutes of the Hirslanden group. The Hirslanden clinics already use […]
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Google Health launched
Internet search giant Google yesterday unveiled Google Health, its online personal health record service.
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Research highlights pitfalls in Catalan e-health
Researchers at the Open University of Catalonia have released a new study which describes aspects of Catalan’s integrated electronic patient record as a ‘technological utopia’ due to technological and cultural barriers. The report also expresses concerns about cultural resistance to the region’s electronic patient record plans. The 22 page study, entitled “e-health and society: an […]
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New clinic in Ireland to study ageing process
The Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) centre in Dublin, has opened a new clinic, supported by Intel and the Industrial Development Agency Ireland, which aims to discover and deliver technology solutions to support independent ageing. The clinic will be based in St James’s Hospital in Dublin, and aims to combine clinical knowledge with the […]
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Google Health unveils electronic record pilot
Google is piloting a system which lets patients transfer their existing medical information to its new online Personal Health Record.
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