Carestream Health launches latest RIS
The latest version of Carestream Health’s RIS promises significant new features, including role-based configurability to suit different users and a low glare mode to stop the RIS screen distracting radiologists as they focus on medical images. The new RIS, launched high above London at the Gherkin skyscraper, is version 11 of the system and has […]
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Dutch health system tops Euro survey
The Netherlands has the best healthcare system in Europe, according to the annual Euro Health Consumer Index. The index compares 33 national healthcare systems across 38 indicators. It is published by Health Consumer Powerhouse in co-operation with the European Commission DG Information Society and Media. The Netherlands has come out in first place two years […]
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Cerner and Quintiles partner on trials
Cerner, the US healthcare IT giant, has announced a partnership with Quintiles, the biopharmaceutical services firm specialising in clinical trials management and data services to life sciences companies. The deal marks an important step for Cerner’s stated ambition to grow in the life-sciences and biopharma sectors. The deal will see Cerner and Quintiles provide biopharma […]
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Denmark runs telehealth pilots
Denmark has rolled-out two telehealth pilots it now intends to implement nationally over the next three years.
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Telefónica pilots video phone signing
Telefónica Innovation and Design has piloted a solution that allows deaf people across Granada and Andalusia to communicate with friends, family and public services using a video phone.
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EHI Awards finalists unveiled
IHTSDO and openEHR to partner
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) and openEHR Foundation have begun a collaborative programme on developing clinical terminologies and archetype-based electronic health record structures. IHTSDO and the openEHR Foundation will work on a harmonisation project based on the practical development of effective and sustainable clinical content for the electronic health record. The project […]
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BSI acquires Eurocat
Global standards and assessment body, BSI, has acquired German healthcare and testing company, Eurocat. Eurocat is accredited by all relevant bodies for the certification of medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics and active implantable devices. The medical devices standards body company already has a significant presence in Germany, the third largest medical devices market in the world, […]
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Spacelabs dabl in CVD management
Irish cardiovascular disease management systems developer and supplier, dabl, has partnered with Spacelabs UK, a medical equipment company to provide a complete blood pressure monitor and 24 hour blood pressure software solution. As part of the agreement, Spacelabs will promote and sell the dabl ABMP 24 hour blood pressure software along with their ambulatory blood […]
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NI rolls out national flu surveillance
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety and the Business Services Organisation in Northern Ireland is preparing to roll-out a nationwide flu surveillance solution from Apollo Medical Systems. The data extraction query solution, which is in its final stages of development, will be piloted in 12 GP practices before it is rolled out […]
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