Speakers for E-Health Insider Live ‘09
The speaker list has been unveiled for E-Health Insider Live ’09 – the essential conference and exhibition being held at The ICC, Birmingham, on 9-10 November. Speakers already confirmed for the event include the leaders of the two companies charged with delivering ‘strategic’ electronic patient record systems to the NHS, iSoft and Cerner. Don Trigg, managing […]
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Swedish hospitals lead on social media
A ground-breaking study into how European hospitals are making use of Web 2.0 social media tools, such as Facebook, YouTube and Blogs, is to be widened. So far, the research has shown that Swedish hospitals lead the use of social media tools, with 11% of Swedish hospitals studied using RSS feeds and 4% using blogs. […]
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EU Hospital IT database launched
A German company, Hospital IT Network, has launched an online European e-health industry research database that offers detailed profiles of more than 1,500 hospital IT suppliers across Europe. The online service offers customers profiles of the main hospital system vendors. Uwe Buddrus, managing director hospital-it.net, told E-Health Europe that he believes that no other website […]
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EC consults on ICT strategy past 2010
The European Commission has launched a consultation to help prepare a new EU Information Society strategy, to follow on from the current strategy. The initial Information Society strategy, known as the i2010 initiative, was first launched in 2005 and is set to expire at the end of 2009. The i2010 strategy set the aim of […]
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Conference for EHTEL anniversary
The European Health Telematics Association has announced it will hold a two day conference on the association’s tenth anniversary that will address the accomplishments and challenges of e-health over the past ten years.
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Scotland edges closer to PMS contract
NHS National Services Scotland has told E-Health Insider that it is close to making a decision on the contract for its national patient management system, more than 16 months after the procurement process began.
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iCS connects German healthcare providers
German Hospital, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, has extended its contract with iSoft to implement its Collaboration Suite (iCS) portal, to help join patient information between primary and secondary care. The new contract extends a contract originally signed ten years ago and also covers the continued use of the iSoft’s hospital information system, ClinicCentre. Isoft […]
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EU tenders for e-health study
The European Commission has put out a tender for a study for benchmarking e-health deployments internationally. The call is for a study to progress towards the development of a standardised survey on the adoption of ICT and e-health solutions in hospitals. The tender specification states: “The objective of the study is to measure the adoption […]
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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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Agfa Healthcare sales continue to fall
Agfa-Gavaert has announced that its healthcare sales have decreased by 5.8% from €313m to €295m for the second quarter of 2009.
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