Million tune in for Twitter surgery

Channel Four has run a series of live surgery operations where viewers could directly question the surgeon live via microblogging
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Orange and Alcatel partner on e-health

French telecomm giants Orange and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a cooperation agreement to develop services for e-health and enhanced assisted living.
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Walsall first with Horizon Visibility

Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the UK to go-live with McKesson’s new Horizon Enterprise Visibility patient
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Agfa Healthcare integrates Oasis

Agfa Healthcare, part of Agfa-Gaveart, has signed an agreement to integrate Oasis workstation software from Segami Corporation into the workflow
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Carestream wins Belgium PACS contracts

Carestream Health has won three contracts for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) for mammography images in the French-speaking region
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St Helens gets scan-on-demand EPR

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has begun roll-out of a electronic patient record based on a scan-on-demand
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Slovenia rolls out e-health card

The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia has announced that it will roll-out a new electronic health insurance card system across
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Government’s CIO praises NHS progress

The government’s chief information officer has praised IT systems in the health sector but has highlighted the need to “drive
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Recession hits US hospital IT projects

The US recession has forced more than half of the nation’s hospitals to either scale back or postpone IT projects,
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European med tech sector slows

The European medical technology sector is weathering the current economic storm but bracing iteself for tough times, with two-thirds of
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