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21 August 2008

Cisco sees return on staff PHRs

Managers at network technology giant Cisco Systems say the company is saving more than $4 for every $1 it invests
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19 August 2008

Agfa Health has weak second quarter sales

Belgium-based Agfa-Gevaert reported that its healthcare division experienced falling sales for the second quarter of 2008. The company said that
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15 August 2008

NoemaLife buys Ferrania Technologies

German healthcare software specialist NoemaLife has acquired the radiology information (RIS) and picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), in addition
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14 August 2008

Canada’s Infoway says 254 EHR projects underway

Canada’s electronic health record projects have quadrupled since 2004, according to the head of the Canadian health IT agency. Investment
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13 August 2008

US-wide EHRs priced at $150 billion

The full implementation of a digital US healthcare system, with integrated networked electronic health records (EHR) in all US doctors’
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6 August 2008

Italian WiMAX ambulance project launched

A new ambulance communications system is using high speed, long distance WiMAX wireless connections to enable doctors to diagnose and
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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
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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
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4 August 2008

Satellite-linked robot does ultrasound at sea

French robotic specialist Robosoft has partnered with the European Mobile and Robotised Telechography (MARTE) project, to carry out the first
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1 August 2008

European Institute of Technology board appointed

The European Commission has announced appointments to the governing body of the new European Institute of Technology (EIT), an initiative
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