EC demands in-car emergency systems
The European Commission has made a final call to EU countries to implement in-car technology that alerts the emergency services if the car is involved in an accident. In a document entitled ‘eCall – saving lives through in-vehicle communication technology’, the Commission warns that if there is no significant progress in rolling out the system […]
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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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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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Le Mans Hospital to use Agfa Orbis
One of France’s largest hospitals is to use Agfa Healthcare’s Orbis hospital and clinical information system to support the implementation of a full electronic patient record. The 1,600 bed Centre Hospitalier du Mans will use Orbis to make patient histories and data available to medical staff. It says this will allow it to improve its […]
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Momentum builds on telemedicine
The head of the European Commission’s ICT for Health unit says there is growing momentum behind telemedicine across the continent. Speaking to E-Health Europe on the first day of the eHealth 2009 conference in Prague, Dr Gérard Comyn said that the Commission was working on a call for proposals for large scale telemedicine projects. In […]
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GPS patient tracking launched in Switzerland
Aerotel Medical Systems, a specialist in mobile and home-based telemedicine and telecare solutions, has partnered with GEBOA SA, to launch Aerotel’s GeoSKeeper GPS personal location system in Switzerland.
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Nuance and GE complete RIS-SpeechMagic integration
Nuance Communications has successfully integrated its SpeechMagic technology into GE Healthcare Centricity Radiology Information System (RIS). The development is said to be the first RIS integration with a Citrix ready speech recognition for the European Middle East and Africa region. According to Nuance community hospitals, out-patient imaging centres and integrated delivery networks can now implement […]
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Dutch healthcare system rated Europe’s best
The Netherlands has been named as having the best healthcare system in Europe, emerging as the overall winner in the Euro Health Consumer Index 2008.
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Elsevier launches German version of MD Consult
Elsevier has announced the launch of DoctorConsult the German language version of its MD Consult clinical decision support tool. Elsevier says the launch forms part of its focus on developing interactive clinical reference and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to new European markets. The company says the German DoctorConsult product is the first of a […]
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Lincor tops Deloitte’s Irish technology awards
Ireland-based Lincor Solutions, a provider of bedside patient entertainment and clinical access systems, has been named number one in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards.
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