surgical Archives

12 June 2009

European hospitals share real-time videos

Hospitals in Norway, Italy and Spain have been linked together using an advanced video conferencing system enabling them to share

18 May 2009

Simulator trains surgeons to be more efficient

Danish research has found that using simulators to train surgeons can make them twice as quick and more precise when

15 May 2009

EU issues privacy guidance for RFID

The European Union has issued new recommendations covering the future use of bar codes and radio frequency identification devices (RFID)

13 February 2009

Hospital uses Twitter for live surgery updates

Micro-blogging service Twitter has been used by US surgeons to provide real-time updates on a live robot-assisted surgical procedure.

4 February 2009

Barco sells Advanced Visualization to Toshiba

Belgian medical imaging specialist Barco has announced that the company closed the divestment operation of its Advanced Visualization (AVIS) activities

15 December 2008

Commission sets out steps on patient safety

The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm

14 October 2008

Carestream supports Ebay for radiologists

Carestream Health is to provide technical infrastructure to the European Union-funded project to create an Ebay-style online market for radiology

8 September 2008

Picis launches real-time theatre dashboard

Theatre systems specialist, Picis, has launched a real-time dashboard to provide hospital perioperative departments with real time clinical analytics. Originally

31 July 2008