CompuGroup goes into rehab
Germany’s CompuGroup has announced that it will buy 90% of All for One, a specialist provider of software for rehabilitation centres and social care units. The deal continues CompuGroup’s shopping spree of health IT firms, coming just weeks after the purchase of Norwegian private health IT specialist Profdoc. Financial details of the deal are not […]
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AOK Plus to use ICW telemedicine system
German health insurers AOK Plus has commissioned InterComponentWare to implement a telemedicine system to care for patients with serious chronic heart failure. The service will be offered to patients living in the German state of Saxony. The ICW Care and Disease Manager will be used as the basis of the system. The system has already […]
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Asklepios rolls out video conferencing to all doctors
Asklepios is to install web-based videoconferencing equipment on the 13,000 PCs of all its medical doctors.
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Bosch Hospital to introduce AiDKlinik
Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart has introduced the electronic medication module AiDKlinik to improve medication safety. The tool offers sophisticated medication alerts, for example warnings in case of clinically relevant interactions and dosing aids for children or patients with impaired renal function. The software was developed by ‘Dosing’, a spin-off of Heidelberg University. “We started […]
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Intel webinar on mobility at the point of care
Intel Digital Health will on 26 June hold a free online web seminar on the value of mobility at the point of care. Intel says the webinar will help participants understand the value of using mobile devices – such as the mobile clinical assistant (MCA) at the point of care within their health organisation. As […]
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Agfa to expand Chinese PACS/RIS deal
Agfa HealthCare is to implement a second phase radiology information and system (RIS) and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) program at the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University. The deal follows the initial roll-out of the hospital’s original RIS/PACS in 2006. The new collaboration with Agfa Healthcare, which is planned to start this […]
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Centre of Health Technology opens in Oslo
A European Centre of Health Technology has been opened in Oslo, Norway. The centre was officially opened by Parliamentary Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services, Kari Henriksen. Developed by strategic co-operation between HP, Telenor, Microsoft, Imatis and Cisco, the centre is equipped like a small hospital, complete with a patient room, […]
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IC chooses Dotted Eyes for digital mapping
The NHS Information Centre has awarded a four year contract to Geographical information specialist Dotted Eyes to provide digital mapping data to the NHS. The contract provides NHS organisations with a range of digital mapping data products available through a fixed schedule of prices. Ben Allan, managing director of Dotted Eyes, said: “Around 500 NHS […]
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Anoto enables BlackBerry integration to digital pen
Swedish digital pen and paper specialist, Anoto, has partnered with wireless BlackBerry platform developer, PaperIQ, to enable digital pen and paper input to be wirelessly transmitted to the character recognition system. The Anoto Digital Pen Integration Kit for BlackBerry provides users with everything required to integrate Anoto’s digital pen technology with a BlackBerry smartphone application […]
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E-health 2.0: health’s consumer revolution
E-Health Insider this week publishes a new research report on web 2.0 in healthcare. Lindsey Birnsteel reports.
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