Hungary signs e-health deal with GE Healthcare
The Hungarian government has awarded GE Healthcare a €3.3m deal to lead a project on developing telecare services for elderly citizens.
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Lib Dems demand tougher data protection
The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Department of Health to publish minimum standards for the protection of data on mobile devices after compiling research on more than 150 cases of data loss in the NHS. The party used the Freedom of Information Act to ask strategic health authorities about ‘serious untoward incidents’ involving data […]
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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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iSoft announces new products at Medica
iSoft has launched two integrated care systems for the German market, based on the company’s new Lorenzo software.
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Germany’s GEK picks Atos for e-health card
German health insurer, Gmünder ErsatzKasse (GEK), has signed a five-year deal with Atos World line, to implement and operate the new German electronic health card (EHC) on its behalf. During 2009, GEK plans to issue 30,000 cards per day in order to provide its 1.7million members in Germany with the new e-health card. Due to […]
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Lorenzo officially launched
Lorenzo, the future strategic care records software promised to three-fifths of the English NHS has officially launched internationally in Sydney, Australia.
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Sunquest completes purchase of Anglia Healthcare
Sunquest Information Systems, the US specialist in laboratory and diagnostic information systems, has completed the acquisition of Anglia Healthcare Systems. Anglia, which had been privately-held, is a UK company providing laboratory connectivity, orders, reporting and messaging products. As of Monday the firm became a subsidiary of Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. The completion of the deal […]
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One small step for Lorenzo
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has given Lorenzo a soft landing. Lyn Whitfield went to see it in action.
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Uni-NHS link up creates mapping tools
A new visual process mapping technique that can be used to capture and improve hospital systems has been developed as the result of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between NHS Fife and the University of Stirling. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships bring UK business and higher education together. The Fife project saw a computing graduate, Mike Ghattas, work […]
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Soft launch of Lorenzo at Morecambe Bay
A limited soft launch of the much anticipated Lorenzo electronic patient record has taken place at Furness General Hospital.
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