IBA boss: battle has just begun
Gary Cohen, the Australian chief executive of IBA Health, has good reason to celebrate – IBA Health is now poised to take control of Britain’s iSoft.
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Systema signs hospital IT-deal in Upper Austria
Austrian health IT vendor, Systema Human Information Systems, is to install information systems at eleven hospitals in Upper Austria.
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Siemens signs major contract for electronic patient records
In one of the largest European private electronic patient record (EPR) deals to date Siemens and German private hospital group Rhoen Klinikum AG have agreed to implement up to one million web-based EPRs per year for the customers of Rhoen’s medical facilities. The whole project covers at least 46 Rhoen hospitals as well as a […]
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Evolution, not revolution
Jens Naumann, head of the German industrial association of health IT companies, talks to Philipp Gratzel about the forthcoming roll out of electronic health cards.
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I am not a gambler
Frank Gotthardt, head of Gemany’s fast-growing CompuGroup, tells E-Health Europe why he was not willing to buy iSoft at any price.
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IBA wins bidding war for iSoft
iSoft has withdrawn its recommendation of the CompuGroup offer in favour of IBA’s latest £166m cash offer, the company confirmed today.
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IBA Health ups bidding war for iSoft
The bidding war for iSoft intensified last night after Australia’s IBA Health re-entered the fray increasing its offer to £166m topping a rival offer from Germany’s CompuGroup.
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Time runs out on IBA Health bid
Australia’s IBA Health appears to have given up hopes of purchasing iSoft after it announced would not be proceeding with its AU $54.5m conditional placement after being outbid. IBA had seemed poised to take control of iSoft Group Plc with a £140m bid, which had been accepted by the iSoft board and shareholders, but in […]
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Granger had team ready to take over Lorenzo
Connecting for Health in June had a team on stand-by in India in June ready to take over iSoft if it was unable to agree terms with Computer Sciences Corporation that would allow it to be bought by a rival. The confirmation that a rescue team for iSoft’s Lorenzo software had been set up by […]
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German health IT fair splits
One of the two main German trade fairs for information technology in healthcare, the ITeG appeared to be in disarray at the end of last week. Trade fair organizer, Mesago, and the leading German industrial association for health-IT, VHitG, have decided to go separate ways after a difference of views about the future of […]
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