Orange and Alcatel partner on e-health
French telecomm giants Orange and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a cooperation agreement to develop services for e-health and enhanced assisted living.
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Permanente way
Kaiser Permanente is making rapid progress with electronic health records. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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French primaries ban mobiles
Mobile phones are to be banned from French primary schools, under new government measures to reduce the health risk to children. The new measures will also require companies to provide text-only hand sets and phones that will only work when connected to headsets to limit the danger of electromagnetic radiation. At present, French schools ban […]
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CompuGroup reports Q1 figures
German e-health firm CompuGroup AG has reported its revenues grew by 36% in the first three months of 2009. Profits decreased however from €12.8m in 2008 to €11.9m. The company attributed the difference to “acquisition related restructuring processes and regulatory implications”. The firm reported that business opportunities remained good and that it had begun delivering […]
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Recession hits US hospital IT projects
The US recession has forced more than half of the nation’s hospitals to either scale back or postpone IT projects, according to an April survey by the American Hospital Association. The survey found 28% of 1,078 respondents had scaled back IT projects already in progress, while 27% had shelved planned projects. A further 6% had […]
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European med tech sector slows
The European medical technology sector is weathering the current economic storm but bracing iteself for tough times, with two-thirds of firms making redundencies or introducing pay freezes.
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Xiring extends French Vitale cards
French mutual insurance company, Thélem assurances, has selected Xiring to provide ‘le Point Xiring V2’ service for its network of branches. The system will provide agents with quick access to up-to-date information stored in patients’ Vitale health smartcards, such as the National Health Insurance data, making it possible to draw up a health insurance contract […]
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BT Global Services takes £1.5bn hit
BT has said it will cut another 15,000 jobs this year, equivalent to 10% of its UK workforce, and reported an annual loss of £134m.
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Siemens begins i.s.h.med Soarian integration
Siemens has announced it has improved its SAP-based information system, i.s.h.med, by adding new modules and integrating primary components of its Soarian workflow solution for the first time. The integration comes as part of the latest offering by Siemens for i.s.h.med – Enhancement Package 4. The two new modules also have a similar design to […]
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IB-Salut awards EHR contract
The health service of the Balearic Islands has awarded the tender for the development of an electronic health record to Fujistu, in conjunction with its partners Oracle and Orion Health. IB-Salut signed the contract worth €6.7m, saying it wanted to transform its existing model of dispersed health information into an integrated EHR. The project known […]
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