Picis launches real-time theatre dashboard
Theatre systems specialist, Picis, has launched a real-time dashboard to provide hospital perioperative departments with real time clinical analytics. Originally developed for the US market and now launched in Europe, the new clinical analytics software forms part of the Picis CareSuite family of products. The business intelligence system is designed for use in the perioperative […]
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German hospitals count benefits of SAP
Hospitals in Germany say they expect regional e-health networks to deliver substantial cost savings of up to €2 million a year.
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Pacsgear establishes European office
Pacsgear Inc. a US provider of document and multimedia connectivity solutions for hospitals and healthcare facilities has opened a European office in Munich, Germany. The company specializes in software for medical image management (PACS) and electronic health record (EHR) systems. Over 600 hospitals worldwide use Pacsgear software. Pacsgear software enables clinicians, technologists and administrators can […]
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Vitalog opens new research unit
Vitalog has opened a new unit to focus on European research activities and projects. The Brussels-based company, which specialises in IT-enabled health promotion and support programmes, says the new unit will participate in research on subjects such as the determinants of health, lifestyle, nutrition, e-health, education and e-inclusion. “Medical research shows that the most efficacious […]
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NHS Wales invites feedback in Polish
NHS trusts in Wales are used to working in two languages but now North Wales NHS trust has gone one further and translated an online questionnaire into Polish. The number of Polish people in the area has grown rapidly, bringing requests for information to be translated. The questionnaire asks people to rate […]
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iSoft wins Spanish contract extensions
Healthcare authorities in the Andalusian and Balearic Island regions of Spain have awarded iSoft contract extensions worth a total of €1.35m. The Andalusian healthcare services (SAS) has renewed its contract for maintenance at 16 hospitals for another year in a deal worth €750,000. The extension of the SAS contract is said to be for the […]
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Philips to lead ‘euHeart’ project
Royal Philips Electronics is to lead a pan-European project to develop advanced computer modelling to enable highly personalised diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
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Agfa Health has weak second quarter sales
Belgium-based Agfa-Gevaert reported that its healthcare division experienced falling sales for the second quarter of 2008. The company said that performance was down due to the strong euro, delays in its new PACS system and the high cost of silver, used in the wet film processes that still account for half the business group’s sales. […]
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US-wide EHRs priced at $150 billion
The full implementation of a digital US healthcare system, with integrated networked electronic health records (EHR) in all US doctors’ offices and hospitals, has been estimated as costing around €97 billion ($150 billion) over eight years. The figure was suggested by Robert Miller, a professor of health economics at the University of California, San Francisco, […]
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iSoft reveals European and UK deals
iSoft has announced that it has secured new business and renewal of contracts worth €8.4m in the UK and central Europe over the past month. iSoft Northern Europe says it has secured new orders worth €3.1 m, while iSoft UK and Ireland has agreed contract extensions worth £4.22m for ongoing maintenance and support. New orders […]
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