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iSoft gets ex-Agfa director as COO

IBA Healthcare has appointed the former chief operating officer of Agfa Healthcare, Andrea Fiumicelli, as chief operating officer with responsibility
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Sweden launches national e-health strategy

The Swedish government has launched a new citizen-centred national e-health strategy designed around ensuring the provision of information to where
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EU project to pilot smart fabrics for health

A cluster of EU research projects, collectively known as the SFIT Group are piloting garments which can measure a wearer’s
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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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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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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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e-Health without frontier conference details issued

Details of the European Union-backed ‘e-Health without frontiers’ conference to be held in Slovenia, 6-7 May, have been belatedly been
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Finland awards national patient archive contract

The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA) has selected EMC to build a new centralised national patient record archive to
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Swindells to open Healthcare Computing 2008

The Department of Health’s acting chief information officer, Matthew Swindells, has been confirmed as the opening speaker at next month’s
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Misys Healthcare to merge with Allscripts

Misys, the UK-based IT software group, is to merge its healthcare division with smaller US rival, Allscripts to create a
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