20 January 2009

Fuji Film acquires Russian subsidiary

Fuji Film Corporation has acquired its Russian distributor of medical and imaging products. The acquisition, carried out through its European
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15 January 2009

Nortel files for bankruptcy protection

Nortel Networks, the Canadian telecoms equipment and networks specialist, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US to enable it
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15 January 2009

SNOMED made free to low income countries

Free licenses for the use of SNOMED CT are to be made available to users in 47 low income countries,
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14 January 2009

Global IT spend to fall in 2009

Weakening economies is set to push spending on information technology products and services down 3% after seven years of continuous
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14 January 2009

Electronic records before man on Mars

Electronic records before man on Mars Ilias Iakovodis, the deputy head of European Commission’s e-health unit, says that a long-term
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12 January 2009

Prison health records on lost memory stick

An NHS worker lost a memory stick with the password attached containing patient information on over 6,000 prisoners. Central Lancashire Primary Care Trust said
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9 January 2009

Antwerp selects Agfa for cardiovascular imaging

The University of Antwerp Hospital has awarded a contract with Agfa to provide it with enhanced cardiovascular diagnostic imaging and
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9 January 2009

Sheffield’s BigHand for digital dictation

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has implemented a digital dictation system to cover 1,000 users across five hospitals on
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9 January 2009

German e-tendering for health launched

Three German procurement associations have banded together to launch a new e-tendering system called ‘eVergabe’, which has been developed by
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8 January 2009

Living Labs event looms

The European Commission is to run a Living Labs Information event in Brussels later this month, to provide information about
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