CompuGroup goes into rehab
Germany’s CompuGroup has announced that it will buy 90% of All for One, a specialist provider of software for rehabilitation centres and social care units. The deal continues CompuGroup’s shopping spree of health IT firms, coming just weeks after the purchase of Norwegian private health IT specialist Profdoc. Financial details of the deal are not […]
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Nordrhein-Westfalen first to use e-health cards
The German government has announced the Nordrhein-Westfalen state will be the first to be given new electronic health cards, once roll-out begins. The state, known as the North Rhine region, will be the first in Germany to distribute e-health cards, following an agreement between the state government and federations representing health insurance funds, doctors, dentists […]
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Bosch Hospital to introduce AiDKlinik
Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart has introduced the electronic medication module AiDKlinik to improve medication safety. The tool offers sophisticated medication alerts, for example warnings in case of clinically relevant interactions and dosing aids for children or patients with impaired renal function. The software was developed by ‘Dosing’, a spin-off of Heidelberg University. “We started […]
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Sonic Healthcare acquires GLP Medical Group
German laboratory information system developer, GLP Medical Group, has been acquired by Australian diagnostics software specialist, Sonic Healthcare, in a deal worth approximately €30m. GLP Medical is based in Hamburg and specialises in laboratory software. Formerly known as “Labor Dr von Froreich & Kollegen”, the company is widely used across Germany and other parts of […]
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TietoEnator’s Health boss sets out vision
Arto Ryymin of TietoEnator tells Philipp Grätzel how health IT will help the company get back on track.
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Agfa leads in German health IT market
A new study has found that the German IT market remains extremely fragmented, with Agfa in the number one position.
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Klinikum Chemnitz hospital links radiology to EHR
Klinikum Chemnitz, one of the largest hospitals in Germany, has become one of the first to link its teleradiology service with an electronic health record using Siemens Healthcare’s Soarian system. As a result radiology data, including diagnosis and corresponding findings, can now be stored in a single shared health record, and then used by different […]
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Swiss clinic group implements MPI from ICW
Swiss private clinic group, Hirsladen, has installed a master patient index system supplied by German e-health specialist InterComponentWare. The master patient index (MPI) system will support the integration of heterogeneous hospital systems used in the 13 private clinics and 100 centres of excellence and specialised institutes of the Hirslanden group. The Hirslanden clinics already use […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 30.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 30 May 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Ascribe announces 12 new sales in last year Ascribe has announced that during the last 12 months it has increased the customer base of its next generation hospital Web […]
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German universities to get access to BMJ
The British Medical Journal Group has signed a three year nationwide licensing agreement with the Bavarian State Library on behalf of the German research foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG,) to provide BMJ Journals’ content to universities and other publicly financed research institutions across Germany. The deal will mean that 124 universities, medical schools, research institutes and […]
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