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14 May 2008

Greek staff trained on telemedicine approaches

Doctors and nursing staff from several municipalities in Greece – plus four specialists from the Athens Medical Centre – have
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30 April 2008

ICW integrates LifeSensor to German ‘LifeService’

German e-health specialist, InterComponentWare, has announced its LifeSensor emergency record is now accessible from the Björn Steiger Foundation (BSS) ‘LifeService
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30 April 2008

Irish health service deploys new intranet

The Irish Health Service Executive has deployed a new intranet, installed by pTools Software The HSE intranet, which is built
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28 April 2008

Eighty per cent of European GPs using e-records

A new Europe-wide survey on e-health has found that 87% of European GPs now use a computer, 80% of whom
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23 April 2008

Mobile monitoring for Barmer customers

Barmer Ersatzkasse, Germany’s biggest health insurance company, has begun to offer its 7m customers mobile phone based fitness monitoring. The
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21 April 2008

Scottish government funds telecare and IT research

University of Edinburgh is to receive a share of £4m funding from the Scottish government to research telemetric supported self-monitoring
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10 April 2008

EFPIA makes recommendations on EMR use

The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) has issued recommendations for EU policymakers on the use of shared
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4 April 2008

iSoft gets ex-Agfa director as COO

IBA Healthcare has appointed the former chief operating officer of Agfa Healthcare, Andrea Fiumicelli, as chief operating officer with responsibility
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2 April 2008

Medtronic to surf Europe’s ‘wave of telemedicine’

The US-medical device manufacturer Medtronic is planning to extend its presence as a telemedicine provider in Europe the company announced
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31 March 2008

Dublin’s St James’s links speech and radiology

Ireland’s largest hospital, St James’s Hospital in Dublin, is using Nuance Communication’s PowerScribe dictaphone system to automate the creation of
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