Imaging

13 August 2008

Walsall begins in-house e-discharge project

Walsall Manor Hospital has begun the first stage of an in-house electronic discharge summary project, designed to increase communication between

12 August 2008

Updated version of SNOMED CT released

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation has announced that a new version of SNOMED CT is now available. The

7 August 2008

Chasing a chimera

Dr John Somers of Nottingham City Hospital explains how England’s PACS programme is hoping to make PACS the repository for

6 August 2008

Carestream rolls out French ‘pay-as-you-go’ PACS

Carestream Health, formerly Kodak Health, has announced that 37 privately owned French medical facilities are now using its Hosted Information

4 August 2008

Geneva boosts telemedicine in Francophone Africa

The decentralised nature of the Swiss confederation has given cantonal governments wide autonomy to spend their money, and Geneva authorities

4 August 2008

Cornwall tracks theatre products digitally

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying a new patient-level resource management system from COA Solutions to help keep

28 July 2008

Agfa appoints new head of health IT

Belgian giant, Agfa Healthcare, has appointed a new executive vice president to head its healthcare IT division and grow the

22 July 2008

Philips SpeechMagic Advanced launched in Finland

Royal Philips Electronics has released its speech recognition-based report management software, Philips SpeechMagic Executive Advanced (SMEA), in Finland. The software

10 July 2008

Sectra to provide Galician hospitals with PACS

Swedish Picture Archiving and Communications System supplier Sectra has signed an agreement with Spanish healthcare service provider Sergas to install

16 June 2008