CompuGroup reports strong Q1 results
German eHealth integration company CompuGroup has announced strong first quarter results, with revenues growing to Euro 41.7m – an increase of 39% on the previous year. The company cited strong organic growth in the health connectivity services sector, as well as by the two most recent major acquisitions. "The successful first quarter 2007 shows the power […]
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EC announces large scale eHealth pilot
The European Commission has begun its tendering process for a large scale pilot of an EU wide implementation of eHealth services to support continuity of care. Speaking at the EC’s ICT Policy Support Programme – Work Programme 2007 launch day in Brussels on 24 May, Dr Gérard Comyn, head of the EC’s ICT for Health […]
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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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Siemens at the crossroads
Klaus Kleinfeld who resigned as Siemens’ chief executive last week was also the mastermind behind the company’s healthcare IT development. William Payne assesses his legacy.
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Italy develops chronic disease tools
The Italian health service is aiming to make use of its IT to create an integrated tool to improve care for people with chronic conditions, a Ministry of Health official has announced. The ministry’s general director for information systems, Walter Bergamaschi told the recent World Health Congress in Barcelona that elderly people required a different mix […]
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SNOMED sold to new standards organisation
The intellectual property rights of SNOMED Clinical Terms have been sold for $7.8m (£3.6m) to a newly-formed board called the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, based in Denmark. The IHSTDO is made up of nine nations – Australia, Canada, Denmark, Lithuania, The Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom with Connecting […]
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OECD countries need ehealth to reform
The vision of eHealth records being accessible in different European Union countries and beyond is now being looked at by many different countries, according to the OECD’s Martine Durand. Speaking at the recent Berlin E-health conference she said "All OECD countries are facing challenges meeting the pressures in their healthcare systems. They are all struggling with questions […]
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Plain Healthcare wins new WiC Contract
Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust (PCT) has awarded the contract for software for its new walk-in-centre to clinical decision specialists Plain Healthcare. The PCT opened its new £2m Walk-in Centre (WiC) in Eaglestone on July 4th and have opted for Plain’s FaceToFace Odyssey clinical decision support product to assess patients and decide on the urgency […]
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Sage moves into healthcare IT market
The UK’s largest technology company and supplier of accounting software, Sage, has announced the purchase of Florida-based Emdeon Practice Services for £297m with a view to setting up a new division for healthcare software. Kevin Cameron, chief executive officer of Emdeon, said: "We are very please to announce today’s transaction with Sage… We are also […]
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Web clinic gains Healthcare Commission registration
An online sexual health clinic that offers postal testing and email consultations is claiming to be the first online medical service to be registered by the Healthcare Commission. DrThom is a private clinic and was set up four years ago by Dr Thomas Van Every, who works in an NHS sexual health clinic in […]
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