Toulouse hospital first in France to use Agfa HIS
The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Toulouse has become the first French teaching hospital to go-live with Agfa HealthCare’s ORBIS health information system. The deployment follows an initial installation in the digestive surgery department of the hospital, and over a five year period this is expected to be rolled out across the hospital in a bid to deploy […]
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dbMotion extend interoperability in Franche-Comté
The French region of Franche-Comté is to receive an expanded interoperability platform based on their Personal Medical File (DMP-fc) system, supplied by Israeli-firm dbMotion. dbMotion’s interoperability platform is a complete package that creates an integrated Virtual Patient Record, based on information contained in existing healthcare IT systems such as: electronic medical records, laboratory and imaging […]
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Scottish hospital to use robots to move goods
Robots transporting hospital goods and equipment will be used for the first time in a new hospital being built at Larbert in Stirlingshire, under a £300m private finance initiative. The robots are being developed by a consortium involved in the new build and will run along separate corridors and use magnetic strips or infra red […]
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Eizo acquires Siemens’s medical monitor business
Eizo Nanao Corporation, a global manufacturer of high-end visual display products, has announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Siemens’s medical monitor business from the Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) Group. Eizo, who are based in Hakusan, Japan, and are represented in more than 50 countries, will take on 130 employees […]
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Carestream and Hitachi create clinical data store
Carestream Health and Hitachi Data Systems have announced they have collaborated to create a powerful data management solution that will help enable healthcare organisations to efficiently archive clinical information from multiple systems over extended periods of time. The new solution, which is able to handle multiple data types including patient records and diagnostic images, will be […]
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Initiate signs agreement with SQLI Groupe
Initiate Systems, the supplier of patient data management and enterprise master patient index solutions, has announced a new strategic agreement with French healthcare identity management specialists SQLI Groupe. SQLI Groupe is one of the main suppliers in the French market who have been helping with the national and regional electronic health records (EHR) strategies. The agreement will […]
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how Agfa is planning to tackle the UK hospital Electronic Patient Record market.
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