LAS system crashes again
The London Ambulance Service computer system crashed for nearly two hours on one of the busiest nights of the year so far. The crash hit the LAS on Saturday night, when a fault occurred in the computer-aided dispatch system. This feeds emergency calls into a computer and automatically alerts the nearest ambulance. As technicians worked […]
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Agfa-Gevaert Healthcare’s sales falter
Full year results from Belgium’s Agfa-Gavaert show that sales fell 8.6% to €1.23 billion in 2008. Included in the decline was a second half of the year slow-down in Agfa HealthCare’s sales, which account for 43% of Agfa’s total sales. For the whole of 2008 Agfa HealthCare’s sales reached €1.39 billion. But over the fourth […]
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Clinical Solutions partners with Fujitsu in Spain
Fujitsu and Clinical Solutions have announced a partnership to improve access to healthcare advice and services in Spain. Under the new partnership the two firms will work together on projects designed to improve the delivery of quality healthcare through the use of intelligent systems and data analysis. Areas of joint work will focus on the […]
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Data blindness
The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far better systems to capture patient experience.
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Carestream Health innnovations in Vienna
Carestream superPACS Carestream Health has unveiled a new architecture at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna. The architecture, which will be available to order in April, will enable trusts to bring together systems from multiple vendors and multiple sites. This should enable them to streamline workflows by allowing patient information and images to be […]
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Siemens buys i.s.h.med from T-Systems Austria
Siemens, SAP, and T-Systems Austria, have completed a deal that will see Siemens take over i.s.h.med software that it had jointly developed with T-Systems Austria, an arm of Deutshe Telekom. Siemens, SAP, and T-Systems Austria originally developed i.s.h.med in the ‘90s; Siemens has now bought T-Systems Austria’s 50% share of the product, together with a […]
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Helix Health links up with Quicksilva
Irish health IT system supplier Helix Health has announced that it has linked up with Quicksilva to achieve compliance with release two of the Electronic Prescription Service in England. Healthcare systems and services specialist Quicksilva is to supply Helix Health with its Compliance-in-a-box consultancy service, Spine Gateway managed service and Spine-in-a-box test harness. Quicksilva said […]
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Sweden’s Ortivus signs antivirus deal
Swedish health IT specialist Ortivus has signed an agreement with Swedish IT security provider SE46 AB.
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Polish health group chooses Agfa PACS
ENEL-MED, a Polish private healthcare provider has selected Agfa HealthCare to provide it with picture archiving and communications systems and supporting technologies. Agfa HealthCare will supply its IMPAX 6 multi-site PACS solution, computed radiography systems and imagers. The Belgian-based health IT and medical imaging specialist will provide ENEL-MED with secure and scalable solutions to support […]
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Bulgarian Ministry of Health chooses Agfa PACS
The Bulgarian Ministry of Health has chosen Agfa HealthCare to integrate diagnostic imaging at four leading hospitals. Agfa will implement its sixth generation IMPAX Picture Archiving and Communications System at four Bulgarian hospitals. Agfa will also provide the hospitals with two CR 85-X, and four CR 35-X, multi-application digitizers. The systems will be installed at […]
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