Bahía wins Cantabrian medical imaging deal
Spanish software developer Bahía Software has been awarded a contract to develop and consolidate a plan for scanning medical images at hospital centres within the Cantabrian Health Service. The firm says the implementation of the project over the next 16-months will allow all the results of medical tests, such as x-rays for example, to be […]
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Nürnberg Hospital chooses Barco displays
Medical imaging specialist Barco has won a large PACS display order from the Nürnberg Hospital South in Nürnberg, Germany. Under an agreement with PACS provider MedicalCommunications GmbH, Barco will provide the hospital group with dedicated colour and greyscale display systems. Barco already supplies PACS displays for hospital Nürnberg North. With 2,170 beds and 5,500 staff […]
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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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EHI’s industry round-up 19.02.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers system deployments, new products, and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Wirral goes wireless with Aruba Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a secure wireless network from Aruba Networks at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge Hospitals. Peter Marsh, technical director of the Wirral Health Informatics […]
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Sectra enters the Greek market
The Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra has signed a distribution agreement with the Greek company Proton S.A., a provider of medical imaging and security systems based in Athens. Proton becomes a distributor of all Sectra’s medical systems and products in Greece and Cyprus. “Proton has solid experience with products similar to Sectra’s, and this […]
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Barco sells Advanced Visualization to Toshiba
Belgian medical imaging specialist Barco has announced that the company closed the divestment operation of its Advanced Visualization (AVIS) activities to Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, the AVIS group specialises in 3D clinical software, marketed worldwide under the product names ‘Voxar 3D’ and ‘Voxar 3D Enterprise’. Toshiba now owns all […]
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Fuji Film acquires Russian subsidiary
Fuji Film Corporation has acquired its Russian distributor of medical and imaging products. The acquisition, carried out through its European local corporation, Fuji Film Europe GmbH, will see the company buy Fuji Film-RU (herefater, Fujifilm Russia), a Russian independent distributor of its medical and imaging products, from Marubeni Corporation. The deal establishes a direct sale […]
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Agfa-Gavaert receives €18.5 Canadian grant
Belgian imaging technology group Agfa-Gevaert says it has received a grant of €18.5 ($29.6m Canadian) from the Ontario government to aid the company’s Canadian R&D operations in Toronto and Waterloo (Canada). The grant will support a total of nearly €125m ($200m Canadian) investment by Agfa HealthCare in its Ontario operations, creating 100 new positions and […]
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Dubai hospital gets Philips iSite PACS
Tawam Hospital in Dubai, part of the United Arad Emirates, has celebrated the ‘go-live’ of Philips’ iSite Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The solution integrates with the hospital’s Cerner HIS/RIS, creating a paperless, filmless workflow for patients and care providers. In addition to being installed at the main hospital site, the iSite PACS also […]
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Barts virus caused ‘major internal incident’
Last November’s Mytob worm attack on the network of Barts and the London NHS Trust led to its ‘major internal incident’ plan being activated, with some ambulances redirected from A&E. The network failure was one of the most severe known to have occurred at an NHS hospital trust. To clean and restore the infected network, Barts […]
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