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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GPS patient tracking launched in Switzerland
Aerotel Medical Systems, a specialist in mobile and home-based telemedicine and telecare solutions, has partnered with GEBOA SA, to launch Aerotel’s GeoSKeeper GPS personal location system in Switzerland.
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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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Germany invests €125m in ambient care
The German national ministry of research has announced a major funding program for ambient assisted living.
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Wales to stamp out medical scrawl
Doctors and nurses in Wales are going to have to use stamps as well as their signature in a bid to combat illegible scrawled signatures on patient notes. The initiative is being introduced because some clinicians signatures are not legible. The stamp will be used along with signatures. Dr Andrew Dearden of the BMA said […]
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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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First Continua certified patient monitor
International telehealth and personal health system interoperability group, Continua Health Alliance, has announced the launch of the first Continua-certified patient monitor. The device from Nonin Medical is a handheld pulse oximeter with USB, 2500 PalmSAT. Nonin says it plans to offer Continua certified tools across its product lines. After two years of work from more […]
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VA fined €15m over lost laptop data
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has agreed to pay €15m ($20m) to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by five veterans’ groups over allegations of lost confidential medical data dating from 2006. According to US press reports the allegations claimed that the department exposed veterans to possible identity theft as a result of the […]
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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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Credit crunch hits UK and US hospitals
Hospitals in the US and UK are beginning to struggle to raise the funds they need for capital investment in infrastructure and Information technology projects. In the US the result is being seen in hospitals shelving planned investments in facilities and information technology. In the UK an internal memo from the National Health Service reveals […]
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