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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Europe-wide project to detect drug reactions

QResearch, the not-for-profit research partnership between EMIS and the University of Nottingham, is supporting a new European-wide initiative, the ALERT
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Europe-wide project to detect drug reactions

A new European-wide initiative, the ALERT project, has received €5m EU funding to detect adverse drug reactions (ADRs) using real-time
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Aintree to go-live with digital dictation

The Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected G2 Speech’s speech recognition technology for a trust-wide implementation in April.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 28.03.08

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 28 March 2008 featuring supplier news and appointments. Supplier news
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New-look SearchMedica launched

SearchMedica, the medical search engine controlled by medical professionals, has been re-launched. The new version of the site features a
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Philips buys Tomcat Systems

Dutch IT giant Royal Philips Electronics has announced it will acquire Tomcat Systems Ltd, a Northern Ireland-based supplier of cardiac
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CfH says much done, much yet to come

Gordon Hextall, CfH chief, says the NHS IT programme too often gets a negative press when in reality it has
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NPfIT progress so far

Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the
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Centre for robotic surgery opened in London

Robotic assistant in action. A centre for robotic surgery has been created at Imperial College London with the aid of the
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