Call for clarity on PACS contracts
Radiologists and PACS managers have called for greater clarity about the future of local service provider PACS contracts, which come to an end in January 2013 in most of England.
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PACS group calls for XDS-I imaging
EHealth Insider Live 2010 has heard an impassioned plea for standards-based interoperability in imaging, as the end of the Department of Health PACS contracts approaches in 2013.
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Carestream signs Dutch RIS deal
Carestream Health has been awarded a contract to supply a new radiology information system to eight departments at the University Medical Centre Groningen in the Netherlands following a competitive European tender process. The hospital, which is one of the largest in the Netherlands, will implement the RIS in December to interface with its existing Rogan […]
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PACS and Teleradiology Group at EHI Live
E-Health Insider Live 2010 will host this year’s UK PACS and Teleradiography Group meeting, to provide delegates with an insight into next generation picture archiving and communications systems. The group is a special interest group of the Royal College of Radiologists and includes radiologists, radiographers, healthcare IT professionals and PACS managers. It runs a very […]
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Royal Marsden signs for Carestream RIS
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has signed a multi-year deal with Carestream Health to provide a radiology information system across two of its sites. The company will install the latest version of its Carestream RIS at Chelsea in London and Sutton in Surrey. The trust is looking for a fully integrated system that is […]
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EuroKing Miracle may be bought by HSS
EuroKing Miracle today announced that it expects to conclude negotiations to be purchased by Healthcare Software Systems Ltd (HSS), the radiology information system specialists. In an announcement issued after E-Health Insider yesterday reported the company faced imminent liquidation, Euroking Miracle said that it expected to be acquired by HSS. No details were provided of the […]
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Dorset invests in Carestream PACS
Carestream Health has been awarded a contract to supply a Carestream PACS, high resolution diagnostic mammography workstations and integrated radiology information system to Dorset Breast Screening Unit. Five high resolution diagnostic workstations will be based at Poole Hospital and will allow radiologists to enhance and manipulate images. The screening unit provides mammographic services to more than […]
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Carestream Health launches latest RIS
The latest version of Carestream Health’s RIS promises significant new features, including role-based configurability to suit different users and a low glare mode to stop the RIS screen distracting radiologists as they focus on medical images. The new RIS, launched high above London at the Gherkin skyscraper, is version 11 of the system and has […]
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Ireland set to decide on PACS
The Republic of Ireland is in the final stages of selecting a supplier for a multi-million euro nationally integrated radiology and picture archiving and communication system, E-Health Europe has learned. The Health Service Executive went out to tender for the PACS and RIS procurement in October 2008. Several acute hospitals already have PACS implemented, principally the […]
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