Hong Kong plans e-health records
Hong Kong’s Food and Health Bureau has set out healthcare reform plans that include proposals to develop a Hong Kong-wide electronic patient record-sharing system. The shared electronic health record system would enable different public and private healthcare providers to enter, transfer and access patient data. The system would include mechanisms for obtaining patients’ consent, and […]
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Carestream PACS installed in Austrian military hospitals
Wien-Stammersdorf in Vienna Carestream Health has installed a PACS solution into three military hospitals in Austria. The PACS solution consists of installations at Wien-Stammersdorf in Vienna, together with hospitals at Graz and Innsbruck, all of which are linked to a central PACS archive located in Vienna. The tender process to replace the existing PACS […]
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InterSystems Iberia wins computing prize
InterSystems Iberia, the Spanish arm of US health database and integration technology specialist InterSystems, has been awarded Spain’s national prize of Computer science and Health 2008. The prize is awarded annually by the Spanish Society of Computer science of the Health (SEIS). The prize recognizes InterSystems Iberia as the organization who made the greatest technological effort in […]
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Commission not ‘Easter bunny’ on research
A meeting on benchmarking e-health developments has called for greater funding of large scale European e-health studies into use of e-health and its acceptance. The call came at an e-health benchmarking workshop held on Wednesday, run ahead of the opening of the e-Health 2009 ministerial conference in Prague. But the European Commission made clear that […]
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Sectra signs University Hospital of Amsterdam
Swedish Picture Archiving and Communicatiosn specialist Sectra has announced that it has signed a long-term deal with VUmc University Hospital of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. VUmc will install Sectra’s radiology information system for the handling of patient information and radiology images. The hospital handles approximately 150,000 radiology examinations per year. The hospital. “Sectra has worked […]
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iSoft wins e-prescribing deal in Navarre
ISoft has won a one-year contract with the Spanish region of Navarre to provide the first stages of an e-prescribing system.
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IBM teams with Google to mobilise patient data
New software to enable data to be easily moved from remote personal monitoring devices into Google Health personal health records announced.
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Basque health service implements ClearSpan
The health service of the Basque region of Spain has implemented an Agfa Healthcare enterprise digital Picture Archive and Communications system, incorporating integration technology provided by BridgeForward. BridgeForward Software, announced that Osakidetza, a public company belonging to the Basque Health Service, has gone live with BridgeForward’s integration engine, ClearSpan Server. Implemented in partnership with Agfa […]
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iSoft renews Dutch hospitals for €9m
Isoft has renewed contracts with two hospital groups in the Netherlands totalling €9m. In the largest deal, Erasmus (medical centre) in Rotterdam has renewed its existing contract for iSoft’s hospital information systems for a further five years. The €6.4m contract includes licenses, maintenance and support. Erasmus MC is the university hospital of Rotterdam and the […]
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Isoft names German Lorenzo reference site
Health software firm IBA Health Group has announced that German hospital group, Krankenhaus Buchholz and Winsen, is to implement its iSoft Lorenzo Clinicals product. The project will be delivered in two phases and culminate in the roll-out of Lorenzo Clinicals. ISoft will also install its new iCS portal, eFA services and electronic patient record (EPR). […]
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