Norway signs €90m deal with IBM
The Central Norway Regional Health Authority has signed a deal worth almost €90m (£75m) with IBM for IT systems to support reporting of health information, logistics and finance across all of the country’s hospitals.
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IBM to acquire Initiate Systems
IBM has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Initiate Systems for an undisclosed sum. Initiate is best known for providing applications that manage patient information in pharmacies and hospitals, including tools to make sure that systems share a consistent view of information and to manage and share records between healthcare facilities. In the […]
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Continua demos in Las Vegas
The Continua Health Alliance has announced its first end-to-end connected health solution, based on Continua architecture standards. The Alliance, which is a non-profit, open industry organisation of more than 220 healthcare and technology organisations across the world, said the development is a significant milestone in its aim to create an ecosystem of interoperable telehealth solutions. […]
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IBM Italy launches telemedicine project
IBM is to launch a telemedicine project in Bolzano, Italy, designed to improve elderly patients’ independence and quality of life, while reducing health care costs.
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Rotterdam hospital buys LabCentre
The Ikazia Hospital in Rotterdam has become the first Dutch hospital to purchase LabCentre, iSoft’s laboratory software application. LabCentre, was launched in the Netherlands last year to provide a modern, scalable and full graphic laboratory information system for clinical chemical, bacteriological disciplines and blood banks. The system was designed to support flexible workflows and improve […]
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IBM unveils analytics solutions centre
IBM has announced that it is to open an analytics solution centre in Berlin to serve healthcare organisations, the public sector and universities. The company says the centre will help to give clients faster access to high quality data and to help them analyse and interpret it, leading to improved decision-making. It will also focus […]
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SOCITM calls for IT stimulus
A leading consortium has called for a £1 billion IT stimulus package from central government to overhaul IT services in local government, health and education in order to cut carbon emissions and create savings. Steve Palmer, president of SOCITM, told E-Health Insider: “We are not asking for a grant, we want to borrow the money […]
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2009 Baltic e-health conference announced
The third Baltic Conference on e-health will take place in Hamburg on September 16, 2009, and this year focus on cross-border care. The conference, to be hosted in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, will focus primarily on Cross-Border Healthcare, optimisation of clinical and business processes and telemedicine. The event aims to provide a cross sector […]
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Permanente way
Kaiser Permanente is making rapid progress with electronic health records. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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Slovenia rolls out e-health card
The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia has announced that it will roll-out a new electronic health insurance card system across the country.
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