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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Cerner director is Obama’s health czar
US president Barack Obama has announced a former director of Cerner Corporation as director of the White House Office for Health Reform. Nancy-Ann DeParle resigned from Cerner’s eight-member board last week to run the newly created office, which will help to co-ordinate the president’s health reform agenda with Congress. She joined Cerner in May 2001. […]
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Bulgaria launches electronic records
Bulgaria has launched a national health portal as the entry point to its first electronic health records. The portal, developed by InterComponentWare (ICW), will give state administration employees access to a modern, electronic version of the paper-based Personal Ambulatory Book that is used to keep track of medical appointments. The Electronic Personal Ambulatory Book has been […]
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Hong Kong plans e-health records
Hong Kong’s Food and Health Bureau has set out healthcare reform plans that include proposals to develop a Hong Kong-wide electronic patient record-sharing system. The shared electronic health record system would enable different public and private healthcare providers to enter, transfer and access patient data. The system would include mechanisms for obtaining patients’ consent, and […]
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Carestream PACS installed in Austrian military hospitals
Wien-Stammersdorf in Vienna Carestream Health has installed a PACS solution into three military hospitals in Austria. The PACS solution consists of installations at Wien-Stammersdorf in Vienna, together with hospitals at Graz and Innsbruck, all of which are linked to a central PACS archive located in Vienna. The tender process to replace the existing PACS […]
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UK Lords welcomes cross-border health
The United Kingdom’s House of Lords has welcomed a proposal from the European Commission for a Directive on patients’ rights to cross-border healthcare. The Lord’s EU Committee said that information was key to enabling cross-border healthcare to work effectively for EU citizens. However, the upper chamber of the House of Commons said that due to […]
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Finland builds on local foundations
Finland is on track to build a national electronic health record repository, which clinicians will be legally required to start using from 2011. The ambitious project, which also involves the development of a national e-prescription service and a patient-viewable record called eView, represents one of the more comprehensive e-health initiatives in Europe. Crucially, it builds […]
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Scottish NHS to invest €1.8m in e-health
Online scanning to allow remote diagnosis for island-based patients and Scotland’s biggest telehealth system are among a range of hi-tech projects to help more patients to be treated quicker and closer to home. The Scottish NHS is to invest €1.8m in e-health – including €640,000 funding from the country’s major health IT contractor Atos Origin. […]
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