Finland’s largest central hospital takes giant leap in patient monitoring technology
The brand-new state-of-the-art Nova Hospital in central Finland was completed in 2021. Its aim to adopt innovative technology specifically in support of its front-line clinical staff, with a focus on productivity, efficiency gains and data-secure technology, was planned years beforehand. Integrating medical devices and patient data was a key aim to ensure the continuum of care and collect valuable insights.
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Finnish Tieto acquires Intensium
Finnish health IT company, Tieto, has acquired the business operations of Intensium, including its benchmarking solution for healthcare providers and its management of healthcare workflow system. Intensium, which provides benchmarking services for healthcare service providers in Finland as a software as a service, allows providers to monitor the care process performance by assessing where there […]
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Dutch set out European ‘robo roadmap’
Dutch innovation agency, TNO, has published a ‘robo roadmap’ on the way forward for robotics in the medical and health arena for the next fifteen years.
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Finland builds on local foundations
Finland is on track to build a national electronic health record repository, which clinicians will be legally required to start using from 2011. The ambitious project, which also involves the development of a national e-prescription service and a patient-viewable record called eView, represents one of the more comprehensive e-health initiatives in Europe. Crucially, it builds […]
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EU internet access reaches 60 per cent
60% of households across the EU had internet access in 2008, according to a survey. Across the 27 countries within the EU, household internet access ranges from 25% in Bulgaria to 86% in the Netherlands. Searching for health information remains a popular online activity, accounting for 28% of usage across the 27 countries surveyed. This […]
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Carestream supports Ebay for radiologists
Carestream Health is to provide technical infrastructure to the European Union-funded project to create an Ebay-style online market for radiology services.
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European Court fines Finland for data breach
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect a citizen’s personal data, by not adequately securing and protecting a patient’s confidential record. The case could prove significant by creating a legal precedent, based on the European Convention on Human Rights, linking data security […]
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Picis to deploy theatre systems across Madrid
The Madrid Health Ministry has chosen Picis to supply software to seven new hospitals in the region.
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Finland awards national patient archive contract
The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA) has selected EMC to build a new centralised national patient record archive to securely store over 5m health records in what will become Finland’s largest database. The project aims to deliver an electronic prescription service later this year, followed by the completion of a comprehensive patient record and […]
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