Ireland to invest Euros 500m in e-health
The Irish Government will commit almost half a billion Euros of investment to e-health when it publishes its National Development Plan for health.
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Norwegian 24-hour telephone advice launched
Norway’s Norsk Helse Telefon 24 (NHT24) a private provider of telephone triage services to Norway and other Scandinavian countries has chosen Clinical Solutions to provide the software behind its telephone health advice service. NHT24 was launched in June, offering subscription-based telephone advice services to people living in Scandinavian countries. "NHT24 is entirely a private […]
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German health IT fair splits
One of the two main German trade fairs for information technology in healthcare, the ITeG appeared to be in disarray at the end of last week. Trade fair organizer, Mesago, and the leading German industrial association for health-IT, VHitG, have decided to go separate ways after a difference of views about the future of […]
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Strong growth in German health IT market
A new study of the German health IT market has sized the sector as being worth between Euros 1.1bn and 1.4bn, and says it is set to grow at up to 6 percent a year over the next 4 years as the German economy gathers momentum. The study by analysts IDC paints an optimistic outlook for the […]
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EU data privacy legislation speeding e-health
European legislation is helping to speed up development of healthcare IT infrastructure, whilst maintaining patient data privacy and security across the continent, researchers at Frost and Sullivan argue. According to research by the firm, the European Directive 95/46/EC (protection of personal data) ‘is recognised and accepted as the world’s highest privacy standard.’ The directive is aiding […]
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Lithuania approves new eHealth strategy
The Lithuanian government has approved a new eHealth strategy for 2007-2015, aiming to improve the quality and continuity of patient services through information technology. The strategy document [currently available in Lithuanian only] builds on a previous feasibility study of eHealth system development and implementation steps from 2005 till 2008, and aims to meet European Commission […]
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Guernsey awards EPR contract to TrakHealth
The Health & Social Services Department of Guernsey has awarded TrakHealth a ten-year deal to provide all healthcare providers on the island with an integrated electronic patient records (EPR) system. The integrated EPR, based on a system called TrakCare, will be used to support the delivery of comprehensive health and social care services to the […]
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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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iSoft chosen as reseller of mobile clinical assistant
Motion Computing have chosen iSoft to be the first UK-based solution reseller for the C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged and washable tablet-PC style device specifically designed to provide doctors and nurses with access to updated patient records and the ability to document a patient’s condition. Incorporating Intel’s latest wireless technology the MCA features a […]
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Business as usual
Charlie McCaffrey, Carestream Health’s UK and Ireland managing director tells Linda Davidson about the company’s new name, new owners and its commitment to ‘business as usual’.
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