Web-based cardiology PACS launched
Carestream Health has launched a new web-based cardiology Picture Archiving and Communications System. The new cardiology imaging system offers a single integrated platform for diagnosis, image review and reporting for echocardiography, cardiac catheterisation and nuclear cardiology procedures as well as electrocardiogram management. Groene Hart Ziekenhuis in Gouda, the Netherlands, has been named as the launch […]
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Dutch Patient Safety Company targets UK
The largest clinical governance software specialist in the Netherlands has announced it is looking to sign its first UK clients. The Patient Safety Company currently provides clinical governance systems to 40% of the healthcare market in the Netherlands. The company says that it is bringing the software to the UK as a “reaction to the […]
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iSoft renews Dutch hospitals for €9m
Isoft has renewed contracts with two hospital groups in the Netherlands totalling €9m. In the largest deal, Erasmus (medical centre) in Rotterdam has renewed its existing contract for iSoft’s hospital information systems for a further five years. The €6.4m contract includes licenses, maintenance and support. Erasmus MC is the university hospital of Rotterdam and the […]
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EU internet access reaches 60 per cent
60% of households across the EU had internet access in 2008, according to a survey. Across the 27 countries within the EU, household internet access ranges from 25% in Bulgaria to 86% in the Netherlands. Searching for health information remains a popular online activity, accounting for 28% of usage across the 27 countries surveyed. This […]
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Dutch healthcare system rated Europe’s best
The Netherlands has been named as having the best healthcare system in Europe, emerging as the overall winner in the Euro Health Consumer Index 2008.
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Nij Smellinghe hospital to install Carestream archiving
Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, The Netherlands, has chosen Carestream Health to provide it with a hosted information management system to enable it to remotely archive patient diagnostic imaging data.
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iSoft to launch RadCentre in the Netherlands
Health IT specialist iSoft says it will launch its RadCentre radiology information system in the Netherlands this autumn.
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European Commission consults on Web 3.0
The European Commission has launched a consultation on how to make sure Europe leads on the next generation of the internet. In its new consultation document the Commission outlined the main steps required to respond to the next wave of the information revolution, resulting from trends such as social networking, the decisive shift to online […]
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Dutch EPR rollout on track
The Dutch national electronic patient record project is progressing slowly, but steadily. Sixty five doctors have been connected to the infrastructure so far. By the end of the year, this number will increase to 200. “We are confident that we can stick to our goal and have all 8,000 GPs using the national electronic patient […]
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Dutch study raises concern about phone triage
A study of out of hours services in the Netherlands has revealed shortcomings in the way patients are triaged. The study of 17 out of hours services, reported in the British Medical Journal, found that triagists tended to ask a limited number of questions and often failed to achieve the right clinical outcome. General practitioners […]
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