Finnish company trials cardiac telemedicine
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed remote healthcare services that allow patients to be treated globally, irrespective of the solutions provided by hardware and data system suppliers. In Finland, the first trial services for treating cardiac patients and patients suffering from chronic illnesses have been promising. A VTT spokesperson told E-Health Europe: “Remote […]
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Carestream boosts European profile
Carestream Health is expanding its European presence with three new European ‘Centre of Excellence’ sites, adding to the six existing healthcare settings already awarded the title. The sites will host visits for other healthcare professionals who want to see products in action and aid research and design on behalf of Carestream Health to help develop […]
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Smartphone patient monitoring showcased
Finland’s, eHIT, a specialist in healthcare software, has developed a new patient sensor and smartphone-based monitoring system, to deliver round-the-clock vital signs measurement. The technology – which uses Bluetooth to connect patient sensors to a smartphone – has been backed by Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia and has been praised on the Forum Nokia […]
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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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Pay-as-you-examine PACS deal for Finland
Kodak has agreed a three year pay-as-you-examine partnership for picture archiving and web-viewing services in the South-west Finland Hospital District for the four hospitals and 24 municipalities in the Satakunta region. Eastman Kodak Health Group will deploy its Carestream PACS and information management solutions to the 28 sites, allowing them to centrally archive, view and […]
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Crossroads for Kodak
Jon Hoeksma talks to Kevin Hobert, senior vice president at Eastman Kodak Company and president of the Health group, about Kodak’s future plans.
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Kodak chosen for Finnish e-health project
Eastman Kodak’s Health Group has been selected as the main supplier of Finland’s RATU e-health project, which aims to integrate the medical imaging and information systems across five Finnish hospital districts. The €2.7m RATU project focuses on the development of e-health in Northern Finland and is funded by five hospital districts and the Finnish Ministry […]
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Pancreatic cancer surgery gets 3D imaging
Scientists at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) have developed software that can generate three-dimensional models of the pancreas from scan in order to help surgeons plan operations. The system, which has been tested on patients by surgeons at the University Surgical Hospital in Heidelberg, takes two-dimensional CT and MRT scans and creates an […]
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E-mail consultations must be documented, says study
A study in Finland has found that communication by e-mail between doctors and their patients is already extremely common, so much so that electronic patient record systems that are being developed should contain the functionality to document all communication. Johanna Castren and Marja Niemi, from the University of Tampere, Finland, and Marja Niemi, from the […]
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Software can read scans and detect heart disease
A computer program being developed in Finland could help to diagnose heart problems by interpreting images of the heart taken over magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The system, which runs on a normal PC, is able to fragment and process a full MRI scan (around 250 images). It does this by measuring particular parts of the […]
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