Carestream win Dutch data archiving deal
Carestream Health has won an e-Health Managed Services (eMS) agreement to provide remote storage of diagnostic images for the Maasstad Ziekenhuis Hospital in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. the company declined to comment on the value of the contract, citing commercial confidentiality. The five year agreement will include the migration of more than 70 terabytes of legacy DICOM (digital […]
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Hong Kong chooses Digital Healthcare
The University of Hong Kong, China, has selected Digital Healthcare’s OptoMize product for its diabetic retinal screening research programme. The Optimize software has been installed at the Eye Institute at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. The contract award followed a tendering process carried out in April 2009. […]
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IMS Italy integrates Barco displays
Medical imaging specialist Barco has been awarded a major display contract from IMS for the delivery of clinical review displays. IMS (Internazionale Medico Scientifica) is an Italian specialist in breast imaging technologies, best known for Giotto Image. It will integrate the new MDRC displays into its Raffaello image acquisition workstations. ”We thoroughly evaluated Barco’s MDRC […]
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FDA clears Carestream Health product
The US Food and Drug Administration has given marketing clearance to the DRX-1 System from Carestream Health. The company claims the DRX-1 is the industry’s first wireless digital radiography detector, and that now it has FDA clearance it will start taking orders and shipping within weeks. The system incorporates a console and a wireless cassette-sized […]
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Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it
Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Nij Smellinghe hospital to install Carestream archiving
Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, The Netherlands, has chosen Carestream Health to provide it with a hosted information management system to enable it to remotely archive patient diagnostic imaging data.
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iSoft to launch RadCentre in the Netherlands
Health IT specialist iSoft says it will launch its RadCentre radiology information system in the Netherlands this autumn.
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‘IT has generated substantial savings for us’
Philipp Grätzel speaks to Uwe Pöttgen, head of corporate department IT at Asklepios, about the ‘Asklepios Future Hospital Programme’.
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Barco win large Brazilian contract
Belgian medical imaging firm, Barco has won a significant contract to supply high-grade PACS display systems to the ‘Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo’, the largest hospital in Brazil. The new systems will be installed in the hospital’s reporting rooms and will be deployed to replace the existing film-based […]
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DeJarnette gets first European order
DeJarnette Research Systems has announced the receipt of its first European legacy PACS data migration purchase order. The 500,000 study migration is being performed by one of the company’s international channel partners, using DeJarnette’s PACSware Migration Gateway toolkit. Already the toolkit has been used by DeJarnette and its channel partners to migrate nearly 200 North […]
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