GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’
Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to ‘scan and save’.
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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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German medication specialists back decision support
Two leading members of the medication commission of the German National Chamber of Doctors have urged German hospitals to implement “intelligent” computerised physician order entry (CPOE) with decision support systems to improve patient safety. They also advocated personal electronic medication lists in chronically ill patients. The CPOE-topic was high on the agenda at the “Hauptstadtkongress”, […]
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Intel webinar on mobility at the point of care
Intel Digital Health will on 26 June hold a free online web seminar on the value of mobility at the point of care. Intel says the webinar will help participants understand the value of using mobile devices – such as the mobile clinical assistant (MCA) at the point of care within their health organisation. As […]
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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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Eastern Europe explores PFI for medical imaging
Public hospitals in Eastern Europe are exploring private finance service (PFI) approaches to enable them to invest in medical imaging equipment. According to a new report from Frost & Sullivan the market for Eastern European medical imaging modalities will double from €195m in 2007 to reach €411.8m by 2014. "Healthcare financing and a burgeoning private sector […]
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Lorenzo likely to be further delayed
The deployment of Lorenzo release 1 to three early adopter sites is likely to be further delayed, E-Health Insider has learned. University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust was scheduled to deploy the first release of iSoft’s key product this weekend. But the trust, its local strategic health authority and NHS Connecting for Health all […]
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Centre of Health Technology opens in Oslo
A European Centre of Health Technology has been opened in Oslo, Norway. The centre was officially opened by Parliamentary Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services, Kari Henriksen. Developed by strategic co-operation between HP, Telenor, Microsoft, Imatis and Cisco, the centre is equipped like a small hospital, complete with a patient room, […]
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Sectra to provide radiology network to Sweden’s Region Skåne
Sectra has been awarded a contract to deliver an IT infrastructure for regional radiology information exchange and cooperation among hospitals to the Swedish county council Region Skåne. The new IT infrastructure will support automatic sharing and distribution of radiology information to all departments involved in the radiology workflow. The county council of Region Skåne covers […]
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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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