Bupa selects MedSpeech digital dictation
Sweden’s Euromed Networks and e-Dict have been awarded a contract to supply MedSpeech digital dictation with integrated SpeechMagic speech recognition for the radiology department at the private Bupa Cromwell Hospital, London. e-Dict is the UK distributor of MedSpeech, a dictation and speech recognition solution for healthcare developed by Euromed Networks. MedSpeech is integrated with Nuance’s […]
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Siemens wins South African Soarian deal
Siemens Healthcare has won an €18m deal to provide 37 hospitals and 300 clinics in South Africa with its Soarian MedSuite healthcare IT software.
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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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Carestream gets KBV e-health card certification
Carestream Health has become one of the first healthcare IT companies to receive the KBV certificate, eGK-Release-0, as part of the initial rollout of the electronic health smartcard in Germany. The Federal National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians awarded the certificate for the Care Radiology Information System (RIS) software. The certification provides confirmation that […]
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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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Carestream chosen for Israel-wide RIS-PACS
Carestream Health has been awarded a €19.4m ($25m) country-wide contract for a RIS-PACS project across Israel’s Clalit Health Services. The Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), and Radiology Information System (RIS) and central archiving solution will be deployed across all Clalit’s hospitals and imaging centers in Israel. Clalit Health Services is a health management organisation […]
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Nij Smellinghe hospital to install Carestream archiving
Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, The Netherlands, has chosen Carestream Health to provide it with a hosted information management system to enable it to remotely archive patient diagnostic imaging data.
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Italian GPs get digital x-rays online
Carestream Health and Italy’s San Salvatore Hospital have announced the development of a new radiology information system module that enables GPs to book digital x-ray examinations and get results back online.
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Chasing a chimera
Dr John Somers of Nottingham City Hospital explains how England’s PACS programme is hoping to make PACS the repository for all radiological images.
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New mammography module allows double-checks
A new mammography module for the Kodak Carestream Radiology Information System has helped to improve mammography screening administration in three of Denmark’s five regions by ensuring images are double-checked. The new mammography module, introduced earlier this year, is now used by 60% of Denmark’s mammography screening service. The new system means that the Danish screening […]
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