EHI’s industry news roundup 06.06.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 06 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Barts and the London School uses TurningPoint interactive assessments Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry has announced that it has chosen Turning Technologies interactive assessment tool, […]
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Airedale hospital to pilot RFID from Siemens
Airedale NHS Trust will be piloting new Radio Frequency Identification technology from Siemens Healthcare to track 100 intravenous pumps across the trust, over 30 days. The pilot will be the first time both Siemens and Airedale have used RFID technology to track assets across various buildings on the hospital site, via the hospital’s new wireless […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 27.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 27 May 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news PromptSMS selects Tyntec For health sector SMS alerting Mobile messaging services provider TynTec has announced that it has been selected by Australian SMS gateway PromptSMS to provide high-reliability messaging […]
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Suppliers set out vision for ASCC
EHI spoke to a number of ASCC lot 2 suppliers to see what they hope to achieve from the new framework. Joe Fernandez reports.
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Siemens unveil new radiology solutions at ECR
Siemens Healthcare unveiled a new portal of IT software for radiologists and other hospital personnel who work with imaging staff, known as the syngo Portal, at this week’s European Congress of Radiologists. Siemens have developed three different strands of the systems, one for radiologists, one for referring physicians and one for senior executives. The solutions have […]
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CompuGroup buys German HIS vendor
CompuGroup has announced its takeover of hospital information systems supplier, Dahm Aktiengesellschaft, better known as Fliegel.
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Siemens plans acquisition of CAS innovations
Siemens Healthcare has unveiled plans to strengthen its position in the field of computer-assisted surgery with the acquisition of German operating room system developers, CAS innovations. A deal for an undisclosed fee has been agreed between the two companies, pending approval from antitrust authorities. CAS innovations manufactures surgical navigation systems which improve planning for operations, […]
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InferMed and Siemens integrate data
InferMed has announced a successful collaboration with Siemens to integrate data from electronic medical records with electronic clinical trials data. The joint solution from InferMed and Siemens offers a scalable, automatic transfer of data between the Siemens electronic medical record (EMR) system and the Macro Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system from InferMed. This overcomes interoperability […]
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Austrian hospitals get fingerprint biometrics
Austria’s biggest private hospital chain, the ‘Barmherzige Brüder’, is to begin using biometric fingerprinting to control access to IT systems. Once live, doctors and nurses will no longer have to remember a password to log onto the hospital information system (HIS). The ‘Barmherzige Brüder’ (merciful brothers) run nine hospitals in Austria, all of which will […]
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T-Systems boss says e-health based on integration
Achieveing connected, interopreable e-health systems in Europe, particularly in hospitals, will increasingly be based on the ability to successfully integrate existing systems and data, says the head of one of Europe’s most successful e-health suppliers. In an exclusive interview in-depth interview with E-Health Europe, Hubert Haag, head of the healthcare dvision of T-Systems – the […]
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