Olympus installs 100th lab automation software
Olympus’ OLA2500 lab automation system Olympus has installed its 100th laboratory automation software solution in Germany, helping laboratories to analyse test tube specimens faster. The Olympus OLA2500 lab automation system is designed to help increase productivity and efficiency in medium to high volume laboratories. The system automates labour-intensive tasks such as sample identification, decapping, sorting, […]
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New clinic in Ireland to study ageing process
The Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) centre in Dublin, has opened a new clinic, supported by Intel and the Industrial Development Agency Ireland, which aims to discover and deliver technology solutions to support independent ageing. The clinic will be based in St James’s Hospital in Dublin, and aims to combine clinical knowledge with the […]
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Mobile health and EPR feature at CeBIT
CeBIT in Hannover is the biggest consumer IT show in the world, and is the place for laptop-maniacs, iPod-addicts and sat nav junkies to get their techno-fix. But as well as gadgets, it is also becoming a key place to watch out for e-health innovations. While the main show runs from 4-9 March, a special […]
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iSoft Deutschland targets Russian labs
iSoft Deutschland has strengthened its position in Russia’s growing healthcare market after forming a distribution agreement for laboratory information systems (LIS). The company has signed a deal with ML Park of Moscow to distribute and support iSoft’s LIS. Russia’s health technology market is said to offer huge potential and be set for rapid growth. iSoft, […]
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Axon Lab becomes iSoft’s new Swiss partner
iSoft has announced its re-entry into the Swiss market through a distribution agreement, just 18-months after it sold its Swiss operations. In June 2006 iSoft sold its operations in Switzerland to Nexus, a local provider of healthcare IT solutions, for €1.4m (2.25m Swiss Francs). Under its new distribution agreement Axon Lab AG, a service provider […]
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Ospedale di Lecco hospital group gets Orbis EPR
Italy’s, Ospedale di Lecco hospital group has gone live with the elements of Orbis electronic patient record supplied by Agfa Healthcare. The solution is now live at Monzoni hospital, one of the three hospitals within the Ospedale di Lecco hospital group. Manzoni is a 681 bed hospital, the largest within the group. The hospital has […]
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Helios Hospitals to connect doctors via EPR
Helios hospital group is launching a Germany-wide electronic patient record project to allow electronic communication with referring doctors in private practices. The system is running in two regions already, and a wider roll out to most of the 58 Helios hospitals is in place for next year. Technically, the system is a web service enabling doctors […]
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Finnish company trials cardiac telemedicine
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed remote healthcare services that allow patients to be treated globally, irrespective of the solutions provided by hardware and data system suppliers. In Finland, the first trial services for treating cardiac patients and patients suffering from chronic illnesses have been promising. A VTT spokesperson told E-Health Europe: “Remote […]
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Major trial of PHRs starts in Germany
Germany’s largest health insurance fund, Barmer, is working with InterComponentWare AG (ICW) on a three year research study looking at the benefits and acceptance of personal health records. Barmer will use ICW’s web-based LifeSensor technology to offer a personal health record to its seven million members at a cost of 23.80 Euros per individual per year, […]
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Amsterdam to launch STD clinic online
The Amsterdam Health Service will launch a web based out patient clinic offering anonymous screening to those at risk of sexually transmitted diseases.
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