Two Swedish hospitals choose Sectra PACS
Sectra has signed a five-year contract with Region Skåne regarding a digital solution for managing and archiving radiology images (PACS).
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iSoft to launch RadCentre in the Netherlands
Health IT specialist iSoft says it will launch its RadCentre radiology information system in the Netherlands this autumn.
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UK group urges rethink on drug advertising
An alliance of nine groups representing UK consumers, patients and medical professionals has urged the European Commission to ditch plans to change the rules on the information that drug companies can provide to patients. Spearheaded by consumer lobbyist Which?, the group has sent a letter to the Commission asking it to reconsider its plans to […]
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German diabetes risk management study begins
A new collaborative research project has been launched in Germany to examine how computer technology can be used to help predict risk factors associated with diabetes. Called ‘computer assisted diabetes risk management (CDRM)’ will examine how different e-health solutions can improve diabetes care. The study, which will be at medium scale, will focus on people […]
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US-wide EHRs priced at $150 billion
The full implementation of a digital US healthcare system, with integrated networked electronic health records (EHR) in all US doctors’ offices and hospitals, has been estimated as costing around €97 billion ($150 billion) over eight years. The figure was suggested by Robert Miller, a professor of health economics at the University of California, San Francisco, […]
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AOK Plus to use ICW telemedicine system
German health insurers AOK Plus has commissioned InterComponentWare to implement a telemedicine system to care for patients with serious chronic heart failure. The service will be offered to patients living in the German state of Saxony. The ICW Care and Disease Manager will be used as the basis of the system. The system has already […]
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Bosch Hospital to introduce AiDKlinik
Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart has introduced the electronic medication module AiDKlinik to improve medication safety. The tool offers sophisticated medication alerts, for example warnings in case of clinically relevant interactions and dosing aids for children or patients with impaired renal function. The software was developed by ‘Dosing’, a spin-off of Heidelberg University. “We started […]
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German medication specialists back decision support
Two leading members of the medication commission of the German National Chamber of Doctors have urged German hospitals to implement “intelligent” computerised physician order entry (CPOE) with decision support systems to improve patient safety. They also advocated personal electronic medication lists in chronically ill patients. The CPOE-topic was high on the agenda at the “Hauptstadtkongress”, […]
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Map of Medicine partners with DH cancer networks
The Map of Medicine is partnering with all cancer networks across England to localise the cancer care pathways already provided by ‘the Map’. The Department of Health say the partnership is key to enabling the networks to achieve targets set out in the ‘Cancer Reform Strategy’, including improving early detection of cancers, reducing referral times […]
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IT heads gather in Greifswald for ALKRZ
Increasing numbers of university hospitals in Germany are using shared IT systems for biomedical research. Greifswald university hospital, where the servers for two multicentre studies are located, is a key site. At Greifswald last week, the heads of information technology for 24 German university hospitals gathered for the ALKRZ conference, a meeting that takes place […]
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