Siemens works with Hospital Clinic, Barcelona
Siemens Healthcare has signed an agreement with Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, to integrate its diagnostic, imaging and information technology systems. The company and Hospital Clinic will initially focus on three areas – liver fibrosis, foetal medicine and colon cancer – and work together to develop new working practices to increase the early detection of disease […]
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Fujitsu Siemens launches health tablet PC
Fujitsu Siemens computers has launched the ESPRIMO MA, a mobile tablet PC for the health sector.
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Siemens partners with Asklepios chain
Siemens is to make its hospital information system i.s.h.med part of the Asklepios Future Hospital Programme.
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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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Siemens wins €28m Korean contract
Siemens has announced that it has secured a €28m contract to equip eight Korean hospitals with medical systems, in what it claims is one of the biggest orders of its kind in the medical industry worldwide. The company will equip the radiology, nuclear medicine, oncology, cardiology and emergency departments of the eight hospitals that make […]
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Rhön Klinikum says EPR key to particle therapy
German hospital group Rhön Klinikum AG, believes its new web-based electronic patient record will be a key success factor for its €120m new centre for particle therapy.
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Agfa appoints new head of health IT
Belgian giant, Agfa Healthcare, has appointed a new executive vice president to head its healthcare IT division and grow the company’s global market position. Dr Volker Wetekam will lead Agfa HealthCare’s global HealthCare IT division, heading up an operation of around 3,000 staff members and report directly to Christian Reinaudo, president of Agfa HealthCare. He […]
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Picis to deploy theatre systems across Madrid
The Madrid Health Ministry has chosen Picis to supply software to seven new hospitals in the region.
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Agfa leads in German health IT market
A new study has found that the German IT market remains extremely fragmented, with Agfa in the number one position.
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Klinikum Chemnitz hospital links radiology to EHR
Klinikum Chemnitz, one of the largest hospitals in Germany, has become one of the first to link its teleradiology service with an electronic health record using Siemens Healthcare’s Soarian system. As a result radiology data, including diagnosis and corresponding findings, can now be stored in a single shared health record, and then used by different […]
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