Malta’s Mater Dei Hospital to get iSoft
Isoft has been appointed as sub-contractor to Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) to provide and support laboratory information systems at Malta’s flagship 850-bed Mater Dei Hospital, the largest hospital on the island. Malta Information Technology and Training Services (MITTS) has also extended its 12-year relationship with iSoft for an upgrade of the current patient administration […]
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Nurses go wireless in Essen
The nursing service at Essen University Hospital is to begin an ambitious wireless health IT project later in September that will result in it becoming one of the first fully wireless hospitals in Germany. The wireless system will be introduced to enable nurses and doctors at the hospital to use tablet PCs running electronic nursing […]
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Scotland completes digital retinopathy roll-out
NHS Scotland has completed the national roll–out of its diabetes digital retinopathy screening service, delivered using web-based e-health technology from Siemens Medical Solutions. In 2006 there were an estimated 150,000 diabetic people in Scotland, a figure projected to double by 2010. Diabetic retinopathy the leading cause of blindness of patients of working age and represents […]
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IMIA and WHO to ‘revitalise relationships’
Reporting from Medinfo in Brisbane, Australia, Neil Versel, interviews the World Health Organisation’s e-health co-ordinator.
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German smartcard rollout brought forward
In a surprise move, the German health IT agency, Gematik, has accelerated the schedule of the German national smartcard project to April 2008.
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Gematik approves RFID smartcard terminal
Smartcard technology provider, Assa Abloy Identification Technologies Group, has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one of field tests of the electronic health card programme in Germany. The company’s smartcard terminal, is claimed to be the only one that supports contact free radio frequency identification device (RFID) authentication, enabling health professionals to securely […]
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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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Malta awards Euros 15.8m health IT contract
The Maltese Government has awarded US Affiliated Computer Services, Inc a seven-year, Euros 15.8m ($21m) contract to provide modern health information systems. The new agreement is the first phase of the Maltese Government’s Integrated Health Information System (IHIS), which aims to improve the management of healthcare records. ACS will provide the hardware, software, and expertise […]
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Brighton and Sussex deploys digital dictation
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has deployed new digital dictation and speech recognition software which will fully integrate with their existing patient administration system (PAS). The trust has rolled out the WinScribe digital dictation system from suppliers, SRC, across the trust, covering 25 departments and over 800 users. The aim of the system is to improve […]
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Caresteam completes PACS rollout in Paris
Carestream Health has completed a Euros 8m project to install PACS across 20 sites of the Assistance Publique Des Hopitaux De Paris (APHP), a French public healthcare group. The group wanted to move away from old film techniques and move to digital imaging in as many of their sites as possible. After going out to […]
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