Jordan picks Perot to help implement VistA
Perot Systems Corporation has been selected by the Kingdom of Jordan to manage the pilot deployment of the open source clinical information system VistA at two hospitals and a clinic in the capital, Amman. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan plans to develop an integrated national healthcare infrastructure using VistA a single software platform. Terms of […]
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Agfa-Gavaert receives €18.5 Canadian grant
Belgian imaging technology group Agfa-Gevaert says it has received a grant of €18.5 ($29.6m Canadian) from the Ontario government to aid the company’s Canadian R&D operations in Toronto and Waterloo (Canada). The grant will support a total of nearly €125m ($200m Canadian) investment by Agfa HealthCare in its Ontario operations, creating 100 new positions and […]
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Dubai hospital gets Philips iSite PACS
Tawam Hospital in Dubai, part of the United Arad Emirates, has celebrated the ‘go-live’ of Philips’ iSite Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The solution integrates with the hospital’s Cerner HIS/RIS, creating a paperless, filmless workflow for patients and care providers. In addition to being installed at the main hospital site, the iSite PACS also […]
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Global IT spend to fall in 2009
Weakening economies is set to push spending on information technology products and services down 3% after seven years of continuous growth, according to Forrester Research. The technology research firm said that recessions in the United States and other countries including Europe would be the main driver for slower technology spending. Recovery is not expected before […]
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German e-tendering for health launched
Three German procurement associations have banded together to launch a new e-tendering system called ‘eVergabe’, which has been developed by the Hessian software provider Healy Hudson. Like many other public authorities, hospitals often have to carry out European wide tenders. Furthermore, they have to operate increasingly economically without letting the quality of their work suffer. […]
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Digital Healthcare raises £2.6m funding
Digital Healthcare, a UK software company specialising in image management and storage solutions for the ophthalmology sector, has successfully raised £2.6m in third round venture capital funding. Digital Healthcare provides software and related services for very large scale population eye screening and technology to manage information and images in clinical ophthalmology. The additional investment will […]
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JAC wins South African pharmacy contract
Medicines management software specialist JAC has won a contract to provide the latest version of its pharmacy management software to hospitals in the Western Cape province of South Africa. JAC, a subsidiary of Mediware Information Systems, has been awarded the new contract by the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC) of South Africa to implement the […]
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Digital dictation becomes software as a service
Digital dictation specialist WinScribe has launched software as a service option – with the first UK NHS installation now up and running. WinScribe claims its OnDemand SaaS is cost effective and overcomes some of the headaches of installing software on site. Rather than pay licence fees for individual users, which can be as high as […]
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Vienna to host IHE’s 2009 Connectathon
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Europe will hold its ninth annual Connectathon event in Vienna, Austria, on 20-24 April next year. The Connectathon provides a unique opportunity for application interoperability testing, taking existing standards and frameworks and showing they work in real systems. The event will be hosted by the Austrian IHE initiative, which says […]
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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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