Carestream wins order in Scotland
Kodak Directview DR7500 Carestream Health has announced it has won orders to supply eleven Kodak Directview digital radiography systems in Scotland. The systems will be supplied to Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Fife Health Boards and come as part of the overall modernisation of Glasgow’s acute hospitals. Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board is in […]
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Wales publishes pathology shortlist
Six companies have been shortlisted as potential providers to develop a national pathology laboratory system for Wales. The procurement is expected to award a £7.9m national contract for pathology services to become available in 2010. The Welsh IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that Cerner, Clinisys, EMIS, iSoft, InterSystems and Technidata have been selected to […]
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Wal-Mart to offer low cost e-health records
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, has announced that it plans to start selling electronic health records to US doctors working in small practices. The retail giant plans to shake-up the US healthcare sector by offering dramatically cheaper electronic health records than have previously been available. It won’t offer electronic record systems in its stores but, […]
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Insider View: Michael Cross
The Database Report had some great points to make. Pity they were hidden by its errors, says Michael Cross.
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VeriFone targets German e-health programme
US firm VeriFone Holdings has announced it will target the growing demand in Germany for electronic health card systems. The company is a specialist supplier of payment and card systems, and has been operating in the US market since 1995. VeriFone currently offers a range of payment certified electronic card acceptance solutions in Germany, including […]
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McKesson set for UK hospital return
McKesson, the number two supplier of NHS patient administration systems, is weighing a return to the English hospital market – a sector it had been due to finally quit by March 2010.
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Over here
Is Cerner Millennium over big, over corporate and over hard to deploy? Or is it a great system that just needs time and investment ? Neil Versel reports.
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Asklepios signs RIS deal with medavis
Asklepios, Germany’s largest chain of private clinics, has singed a deal with radiology information system specialist medavis GmbH, to equip six Asklepios clinics in Hamburg with medavis’ radiology information system. The switch to medavis RIS as the central radiology information system for the six Hamburg clinics will be carried out as part of the private […]
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Med-e-Tel to focus on spreading telemedicine
The first Med-e-Tel telemedicine and e-health conference to be held since the European Commission’s Telemedicine Communication will take place in Luxembourg next week. The Commission’s Telemedicine Communication, which provides an ambitious framework for dramatically improving access to telemedicine for EU citizens and healthcare professionals across Europe, was published in November 2008, and will be a central focus […]
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Clinical Solutions partners with Fujitsu in Spain
Fujitsu and Clinical Solutions have announced a partnership to improve access to healthcare advice and services in Spain. Under the new partnership the two firms will work together on projects designed to improve the delivery of quality healthcare through the use of intelligent systems and data analysis. Areas of joint work will focus on the […]
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