Scottish hospital to use robots to move goods
Robots transporting hospital goods and equipment will be used for the first time in a new hospital being built at Larbert in Stirlingshire, under a £300m private finance initiative. The robots are being developed by a consortium involved in the new build and will run along separate corridors and use magnetic strips or infra red […]
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CSW acquires software of Ireland’s H2HCare
CSW Group Ltd have acquired the software assets of H2HCare, an Irish health IT company, specialising in healthcare – providing web-based billing, contracting and financial management capabilities to support effective patient care for public and private healthcare organisations. H2HCare products will be incorporated into CSW’s Case Notes product suite, extending it from an Electronic Health […]
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Strong growth predicted in European EMR market
The market in electronic medical record systems across Europe may be set to treble over the next six years because of the strong business and clinical benefits such systems deliver, a new Frost and Sullivan report argues. The report, titled European Electronic Medical Records Markets, says that the European EMR market is currently worth $349.6m […]
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German hospital group to roll-out EMR
A major German hospital player has announced that it will begin to develop a national network of electronic medical records within the next few weeks. The Sana-Kliniken – number four among the private hospital chains in Germany – have signed a contract with the Berlin-based GMD, a specialist provider for eHealth solutions. The latest announcement […]
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Cambio gets smart on patient wristbands
Scandinavian software provider Cambio Healthcare Systems has announced a new partnership with LaserBand, to deliver its patient wristband and labelling solution to the UK’s NHS. Spurred on by the release of the Department Of Health (DH)’s ‘Coding for Success’ report and a successful pilot of the solution in Sweden, Cambio will be releasing the solution to […]
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Picis expands presence in Europe
Picis, a providers of acute information systems, has announced a further five deals in Europe in the first quarter of this year. The company have been working in Europe for almost 15 years now and now has their systems used by more than 1000 hospitals in 19 European countries. Picis’s executive vice president of global […]
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Portugal launches health advice helpline
The Portuguese National Health Service has launched a new national health helpline, which will use the same technology as the NHS Direct helpline covering England and Wales. Saúde 24 (Health 24) is the most recent initiative of the Portuguese health department and aims to provide information and advice to citizens who call in with health queries. […]
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E-mail with patients will demand new skills
E-mail communication with patients will require astute judgement from doctors about which correspondents need to be evaluated in person and sound intuition about when patients’ emotional needs are better served face-to-face, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. The article (NEJM 356;24 2451-2454 – subscription required) by John H. Stone, formerly […]
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Initiate signs agreement with SQLI Groupe
Initiate Systems, the supplier of patient data management and enterprise master patient index solutions, has announced a new strategic agreement with French healthcare identity management specialists SQLI Groupe. SQLI Groupe is one of the main suppliers in the French market who have been helping with the national and regional electronic health records (EHR) strategies. The agreement will […]
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Telemedicine growing in use in Germany
Nearly 2000 patients with chronic heart problems and 200 with diabetes are now being monitored through a BKK Taunus telemedicine system at home, in the German state of Hessen. The devices are personal healthcare telemedicine services (PHTS) and are offered to patients who meet a certain criteria and have relevant health insurance. PHTS has contracts […]
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