Doctor develops diagnostic diabetes software
A GP has developed software that he believes could help identify up to 60,000 patients with undiagnosed diabetes. The software has already been installed in EMIS practices following the research project conducted by Dr Tim Holt, a GP in Warwickshire and clinical lecturer at Warwick University Medical School. Dr Holt and his colleagues looked for […]
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InferMed and Siemens integrate data
InferMed has announced a successful collaboration with Siemens to integrate data from electronic medical records with electronic clinical trials data. The joint solution from InferMed and Siemens offers a scalable, automatic transfer of data between the Siemens electronic medical record (EMR) system and the Macro Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system from InferMed. This overcomes interoperability […]
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Axon Lab becomes iSoft’s new Swiss partner
iSoft has announced its re-entry into the Swiss market through a distribution agreement, just 18-months after it sold its Swiss operations. In June 2006 iSoft sold its operations in Switzerland to Nexus, a local provider of healthcare IT solutions, for €1.4m (2.25m Swiss Francs). Under its new distribution agreement Axon Lab AG, a service provider […]
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iSoft reaches halfway point on Irish PAS deal
iSoft has reached the halfway point on a £41.5m project to deliver integrated patient management systems to hospitals across Ireland. iSoft is providing its iPM PAS system under the contract. The company announced that it has delivered systems which are now live in 26 hospitals in Ireland, a mixture of acute community and mental health. […]
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Carestream aids tumour screening in Albania
Carestream Health is providing computed radiography solutions, printing systems and professional services to an EU-funded screening project between Italy and Albania. Based on collaboration between Albania and the Puglia region of Italy, the project is designed to improve tumour screening and diagnoses services available to Albanian women. Health professionals in Albania and Puglia will work […]
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SpeechMagic to integrate with RadConsult
Philips’ speech recognition platform, SpeechMagic, is to be integrated with Elsevier’s new RadConsult radiology diagnostic reference system, Royal Philips Electronics and Elsevier announced yesterday. The integration will allow customers, and the partners of both parties, to use industrial grade speech recognition, with access to radiological information, to assist them in increasing productivity and reducing medical […]
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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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Salzburg hospitals implement Agfa
The main hospital group in the Salzburg region of Austria, Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK), has implemented a new Hospital Information System (HIS) and a new Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), both supplied by Agfa Healthcare. Agfa has provided the hospital group with its Orbis HIS and Impax PACS solutions. Following 18 months of preparatory work, […]
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Carestream boost European presence
Carestream Health have signed five deals covering five countries for its Carestream Picture Archiving and Communications System and Radiology Information System.
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Siemens acquire Dade Behring
Siemens have announced they are to acquire US-based clinical laboratory diagnostics company, Dade Behring in a deal worth Euros 5bn. Dade Behring provides clinical laboratory equipment and integrated solutions for routine chemistry testing, immunodiagnostics (including infectious disease testing), haemostasis testing (process whereby bleeding is halted) and microbiology. They currently have operations in […]
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