Philips scores top in patient monitoring
Royal Philips Electronics says its customers have rated Philips Healthcare in first place in overall service performance for Patient Monitoring Systems in a US survey carried out by IMV ServiceTrak. In the independent survey, customers were asked to rate patient monitoring systems manufacturers on a number of criteria. The 2008 US survey scores Philips in […]
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Nuance and GE complete RIS-SpeechMagic integration
Nuance Communications has successfully integrated its SpeechMagic technology into GE Healthcare Centricity Radiology Information System (RIS). The development is said to be the first RIS integration with a Citrix ready speech recognition for the European Middle East and Africa region. According to Nuance community hospitals, out-patient imaging centres and integrated delivery networks can now implement […]
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Panasonic Toughbook MCA launched
A new mobile clinical assistant, billed as “designed for nurses by nurses” will be officially launched today at the World of Health IT conference in Copenhagen. The device which marks the latest development on the fast evolving mobile clinical assistant, rugged tablet PC market for healthcare, has been developed with extensive input and feedback from […]
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Philips and King’s College to collaborate
Philips and King’s College London have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on research into heart disease over the next five years.
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Microsoft says Amalga speech deal unchanged
Microsoft’s licensing deal with Philips Speech Recognition Systems to integrate the firm’s speech recognition technology in its Amalga health software is unaffected by the sale of the Philips business unit.
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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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Philips and Utrecht University partner on research
Royal Philips Electronics and the University Medical Centre Utrecht have signed a morandum of understanding setting out a long-term research partnership. The new partnership between UMC, the Netherlands’ biggest university hospital, and Philips will focus on developing new solutions for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of major disease areas. Philips and UMC will develop collaborative […]
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Philips to lead ‘euHeart’ project
Royal Philips Electronics is to lead a pan-European project to develop advanced computer modelling to enable highly personalised diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
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European Institute of Technology board appointed
The European Commission has announced appointments to the governing body of the new European Institute of Technology (EIT), an initiative intended to help drive technology innovation across the continent. By boosting the EU’s capacity to transform education and research results into tangible commercial innovation opportunities, the EIT is intended to help bridge the innovation gap […]
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Philips SpeechMagic Advanced launched in Finland
Royal Philips Electronics has released its speech recognition-based report management software, Philips SpeechMagic Executive Advanced (SMEA), in Finland. The software is to be made available to Finnish hospitals, in order to help speed up the availability of medical reports and information. SMEA can operate as a stand-alone application or as an integrated system. The Finnish […]
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