CompuGroup posts strong sales growth
German health IT company CompuGroup has announced a 61% increase in sales in the second quarter of 2009 compared with 2008.
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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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iCS connects German healthcare providers
German Hospital, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, has extended its contract with iSoft to implement its Collaboration Suite (iCS) portal, to help join patient information between primary and secondary care. The new contract extends a contract originally signed ten years ago and also covers the continued use of the iSoft’s hospital information system, ClinicCentre. Isoft […]
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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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Entra launches diabetic alert system
MyGlucoHealth Meter US-telehealth specialist Entra Health Systems has launched a patient messaging and alerts system designed to support diabetics who use MyGlucoHealth Meter, a platform developed to allow people to self-monitor glucose levels. The new system allows users of the MyGlucoseHealth bluetooth blood glucose meter and MyGlucoHealth Network, which automatically collects results from patients and […]
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Rotterdam hospital buys LabCentre
The Ikazia Hospital in Rotterdam has become the first Dutch hospital to purchase LabCentre, iSoft’s laboratory software application. LabCentre, was launched in the Netherlands last year to provide a modern, scalable and full graphic laboratory information system for clinical chemical, bacteriological disciplines and blood banks. The system was designed to support flexible workflows and improve […]
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CompuGroup expands in Italy
German health IT firm CompuGroup has continued its rapid growth with the purchase of Italian firm FimeSan SpA.
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German insurer automates mail
One of the largest health insurance companies in Germany, Techniker Krankenkasse (TK), has rolled out a digital mailroom platform to handle the 25m incoming mail items that it receives each year. The TK, which insures more than 7.2m people, has deployed Foxray’s xbound digital mailroom platform to deal with the 200,000 pages of direct debit […]
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iSoft signs sixth German Lorenzo site
iSoft has announced that Christophorus-Kliniken will become the sixth early adopter of its Lorenzo system in Germany. The organisation is an existing client for iSoft’s ClinicCentre, LabCentre and BusinessCentre systems. The new contract covers three hospitals in Coesfeld, Dulmen and Nottuln in North Rhine-Westphalia, which provide a total of 620 beds and employ 1,500 staff. […]
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IBM unveils analytics solutions centre
IBM has announced that it is to open an analytics solution centre in Berlin to serve healthcare organisations, the public sector and universities. The company says the centre will help to give clients faster access to high quality data and to help them analyse and interpret it, leading to improved decision-making. It will also focus […]
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