High tech healing space unveiled by Philips
A room divider displaying medical records forms part of a ‘healing space’ and was among the technological pickings on show from Philips this week.
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NHS Scotland ready for national PACS roll out
The Scottish Executive has announced that national deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) across Scotland will begin this month after successful pilots in hospitals across Glasgow and Dumfries and Galloway. Over the next two years every hospital in Scotland will receive a new system from Carestream Health [formerly Kodak Health], which will […]
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Belgian hospital extends PACS to satellite locations
The Saint Luc Bouge Hospital in Belgium is extending its Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) and computed radiography (CR) systems from Carestream Health to serve three satellite locations in the Province of Namur for the first time. The 360-bed hospital has been using Carestream Health’s technology for seven years and wanted to extend the […]
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Microsoft launches HealthVault
Microsoft has launched a major personal health record initiative based on a secure website that allows users to store and share their health records using a free online service. The HealthVault portal allows users to store and share their medical histories, immunisation details, and data from monitoring devices such as glucose and cholestoral levels. A […]
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More Europeans using internet for health information
The use of the internet for health purposes is increasing across the continent, a survey of seven European countries has found. Northern European countries led the use of the internet for health, followed by Eastern and Southern Europe. Of 7,022 interviewed over the telephone in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Greece and Portugal, […]
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Finnish screening service instals Directview CR
Clinicians at the private Suomen Terveystalo OOyj screening service in Finland are benefiting from improved workflow efficiency and image quality after installing Kodak’s Directview CR systems with mammography from Carestream Health. The installation, in 40 of the private clinics, has led to a 50% reduction in referral to treatment time at the centres. Around ten […]
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NHS to invest in new digital alarms for staff
New safety alarm devices for lone workers will be provided to 30,000 NHS workers, as part of the Department of Health’s pledge this week to spend £97m on tackling violence against NHS staff. As well as including an alarm function, the device will help locate the user and link them to a trained individual who […]
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French computer project wins eGovernment award
A French company which specialises in financing new IT equipment, refurbished by disabled workers has won a European eGovernment award for its social impact and cohesion. Besancon.clic set out to reach the largest number of people possible in the city of Besançon to reduce the digital gap. Working since 1999, the company has achieved this […]
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Anoto launches digital pen and paper
Anoto Group, specialist in digital pen and paper technology has launched a new software package called Anoto Forms Solution, designed specifically for the European health market. The Norwegian specialist has designed the bundle to electronically capture and transmit data entered into paper based forms, using digital pens. Anoto’s VP for sales and marketing, Ebba Asly […]
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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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