Carestream supports Ebay for radiologists
Carestream Health is to provide technical infrastructure to the European Union-funded project to create an Ebay-style online market for radiology services.
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InterSystems introduces DeepSee
US health IT systems specialist InterSystems has announced the international launch of its new business intelligence (BI) product, DeepSee. The DeepSee product, which is embedded into InterSystems and partners software, is designed to deliver real-time BI for operational business processes, using current transactional data. InterSystems says the embedded BI approach avoids the need for separate […]
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Nuance buys Philips Speech Recognition Systems
Philips has sold its Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) to US-based Nuance Communications for €66m ($96.1m).
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Ascribe acquires WCI Healthcare
UK Healthcare IT software specialist Ascribe Group Plc has acquired WCI Consulting Ltd’s healthcare division. The purchase of the consultancy will bolster Ascribe’s implementation capabilities, enabling it to offer NHS trusts its range of specialist clinical software systems, together with associated implementation and business change consultancy. Stephen Critchlow, executive chairman of Ascribe, said the deal would enable […]
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DH looks at single urgent care number
The Department of Health has said that it will publish proposals for a single, national telephone number for urgent care later this year. Responding to this week’s Healthcare Commission report on emergency and urgent care, the DH said: “As announced in Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS, we are looking at the benefits of a […]
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IHE publishes tendering recommendations
The German section of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has published a paper advising hospital representatives on how to phrase bid invitations for health IT solutions. The goal is to spread the IHE profiles more rapidly. Originally, IHE was an initiative that aimed to increase the interoperability of devices and software solutions in radiology. Today, […]
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CompuGroup restructures
CompuGroup’s subsidiary systema is integrating its hospital information system and rehabilitation and social care IT business. The ultimate goal is to bring together the different IT-solutions in the portfolio and to put them onto a single technological platform. CompuGroup took over systema, which has around 100 hospital customers in Austria and Eastern Europe, last year, […]
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Lorenzo live at Morecambe Bay by end of month
Computer Science Corporation’s chief technology officer for the National Programme for IT in the NHS has said it will implement Lorenzo at the first acute trust by the end of September. Speaking at an industry event in St Albans last week, Mike Dyer said University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust will go live “by […]
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CSC selects InterSystems for trust integration
Computer Sciences Corporation is to use InterSystems Ensemble for the integration of all new applications it provides to existing trust systems. CSC, the local service provider for the North East and Midlands regions in England’s NHS National Programme for IT, has selected Ensemble as the standard trust integration engine (TIE). The Ensemble TIE will include pre-built […]
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