Siemens signs Turkish Soarian partner
Siemens has partnered with Turkish healthcare solutions company, Simeks Tibbi Sistemler Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, to sell Siemen’s hospital information system, Soarian MedSuite. Soarian MedSuite aims to help hospitals increase efficiency by providing caregivers with integrated tools to manage administrative, clinical, and financial processes. Gercek Sunman, chief executive officer of Simeks, said: “The joint […]
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Siemens puts IM-RealART on view
Siemens Healthcare is taking a new solution for cancer therapy to this year’s Conference of the European Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. The German company says IM-RealART allows radiotherapy treatment plans to be adapted in response to changes in the shape and position of tumours, “even while the patient is still lying on the […]
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US hospital EMR sales slumped in 2008
US sales of electronic medical record systems to large hospitals fell to a seven year low in 2008. Sales of new EMR contracts are, however, predicted to be far higher in 2009, spurred by $19 billion of federal financial incentives for ‘meaningful use’ of EMRs. The figures, produced from US research firm KLAS, say EMR […]
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Centre Hospitalier chooses Siemens
The Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL) is to install the base module of Siemens’ i.s.h.med hospital information system. The basis modules of i.s.h.med, which include order and report communications, are scheduled to be installed in the final quarter of 2009. The hospital plans to implement the new hospital information system over several phases. It is […]
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Siemens signs Impac oncology deal
Siemens Healthcare and Impac Medical Systems have extended their cooperation agreement for information systems for oncology. Under the latest agreement, Siemens will offer the Mosaiq software as its next generation oncology information system (OIS). Customers using its Lantis software, the OIS currently sold by Siemens, will have the option of upgrading or continuing to use […]
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Siemens wins Barts network contract
Barts and The London NHS Trust has awarded a four-year, multi million-pound contract to Siemens Enterprise Communications to implement a fixed and wireless LAN and security infrastructure. The work will provide the trust, including the new hospitals, with a single network able to handle data, voice and video streaming from multiple wireless devices and PCs […]
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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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Siemens begins i.s.h.med Soarian integration
Siemens has announced it has improved its SAP-based information system, i.s.h.med, by adding new modules and integrating primary components of its Soarian workflow solution for the first time. The integration comes as part of the latest offering by Siemens for i.s.h.med – Enhancement Package 4. The two new modules also have a similar design to […]
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Siemens buys i.s.h.med from T-Systems Austria
Siemens, SAP, and T-Systems Austria, have completed a deal that will see Siemens take over i.s.h.med software that it had jointly developed with T-Systems Austria, an arm of Deutshe Telekom. Siemens, SAP, and T-Systems Austria originally developed i.s.h.med in the ‘90s; Siemens has now bought T-Systems Austria’s 50% share of the product, together with a […]
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Bahía wins Cantabrian medical imaging deal
Spanish software developer Bahía Software has been awarded a contract to develop and consolidate a plan for scanning medical images at hospital centres within the Cantabrian Health Service. The firm says the implementation of the project over the next 16-months will allow all the results of medical tests, such as x-rays for example, to be […]
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