Jon Hoeksma - Digital Health

14 October 2008

Microsoft says Amalga speech deal unchanged

Microsoft's licensing deal with Philips Speech Recognition Systems to integrate the firm's speech recognition technology in its Amalga health software

10 October 2008

Nij Smellinghe hospital to install Carestream archiving

Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, The Netherlands, has chosen Carestream Health to provide it with a hosted information management system

9 October 2008

Healthcare Interoperability Preview

Brian Derry tells Jon Hoeksma why interoperability underpins the future digital NHS.

9 October 2008

iSoft to launch RadCentre in the Netherlands

Health IT specialist iSoft says it will launch its RadCentre radiology information system in the Netherlands this autumn.

8 October 2008

ASSIST says idea NHS like a bank ‘fundamentally flawed’

NHS informatics professional body ASSIST has published a paper saying the original NHS National Programme for IT plan of a

8 October 2008

Royal Brompton and Harefield implements WLAN

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, has implemented a wireless local area network (WLAN) supplied by French telecoms giant

8 October 2008

Leading US health web sites merge

The number two and three US health website networks are to merge to take on the might of market leader

6 October 2008

PACSnet to close after funding pulled

The PACSnet advisory group is to close, after the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) announced that it will cease

3 October 2008

Northern Ireland picks Sectra for RIS/PACS

Northern Ireland’s Department of Health has selected Swedish medical IT specialist Sectra to provide the technology for managing radiology information

3 October 2008