Damp Holding AG awards contract to iSoft
iSoft has won a two-year €1.65m contract with German private healthcare group Damp Holding AG to provide an integrated radiology information system and picture archiving and communications system. The enterprise wide system will connect the radiology departments at Damp Holding’s six acute care hospitals across Germany and an operating centre in Denmark. The deal, which […]
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Carestream wins order in Scotland
Kodak Directview DR7500 Carestream Health has announced it has won orders to supply eleven Kodak Directview digital radiography systems in Scotland. The systems will be supplied to Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Fife Health Boards and come as part of the overall modernisation of Glasgow’s acute hospitals. Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board is in […]
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College highlights poor PACS image sharing
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor, according to a new position paper from the Royal College of Radiologists.
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Over here
Is Cerner Millennium over big, over corporate and over hard to deploy? Or is it a great system that just needs time and investment ? Neil Versel reports.
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Asklepios signs RIS deal with medavis
Asklepios, Germany’s largest chain of private clinics, has singed a deal with radiology information system specialist medavis GmbH, to equip six Asklepios clinics in Hamburg with medavis’ radiology information system. The switch to medavis RIS as the central radiology information system for the six Hamburg clinics will be carried out as part of the private […]
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Agfa-Gevaert Healthcare’s sales falter
Full year results from Belgium’s Agfa-Gavaert show that sales fell 8.6% to €1.23 billion in 2008. Included in the decline was a second half of the year slow-down in Agfa HealthCare’s sales, which account for 43% of Agfa’s total sales. For the whole of 2008 Agfa HealthCare’s sales reached €1.39 billion. But over the fourth […]
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Agfa starts roll out in Basque region
Agfa IMPAX 6 PACS Agfa Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed the first phase of its imaging and informatics solution to the Basque region of Spain. It has deployed the solution across seven of the 28 Osakidetza facilities run by the Basque Health Service. Agfa was selected in 2007 to install its IMPAX […]
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Carestream Health innnovations in Vienna
Carestream superPACS Carestream Health has unveiled a new architecture at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna. The architecture, which will be available to order in April, will enable trusts to bring together systems from multiple vendors and multiple sites. This should enable them to streamline workflows by allowing patient information and images to be […]
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Polish health group chooses Agfa PACS
ENEL-MED, a Polish private healthcare provider has selected Agfa HealthCare to provide it with picture archiving and communications systems and supporting technologies. Agfa HealthCare will supply its IMPAX 6 multi-site PACS solution, computed radiography systems and imagers. The Belgian-based health IT and medical imaging specialist will provide ENEL-MED with secure and scalable solutions to support […]
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Bulgarian Ministry of Health chooses Agfa PACS
The Bulgarian Ministry of Health has chosen Agfa HealthCare to integrate diagnostic imaging at four leading hospitals. Agfa will implement its sixth generation IMPAX Picture Archiving and Communications System at four Bulgarian hospitals. Agfa will also provide the hospitals with two CR 85-X, and four CR 35-X, multi-application digitizers. The systems will be installed at […]
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