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8 April 2008

Nottingham to implement Cisco medical network

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a multi-million pound agreement to deploy a Cisco Medical-Grade Network to help it
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3 April 2008

Northern Ireland launches Emergency Care Record

Northern Ireland health minister, Michael McGimpsey, has launched the Northern Ireland Emergency Care Record – a new emergency care project
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2 April 2008

Medtronic to surf Europe’s ‘wave of telemedicine’

The US-medical device manufacturer Medtronic is planning to extend its presence as a telemedicine provider in Europe the company announced
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2 April 2008

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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1 April 2008

Study praises Norwegian EPRs

A study by researchers at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has found that GP electronic patient records
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31 March 2008

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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31 March 2008

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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26 March 2008

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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25 March 2008

Sweden chooses InterSystems for NPO

The Swedish National Patient Overview has chosen to use InterSystems HealthShare software, in a five year contract worth SEK 115m.
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20 March 2008

German government unveils smartcard costs

The German ministry of health has issued details on recent and estimated future costs of the healthcare smartcard project in
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