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22 January 2009

Jordan picks Perot to help implement VistA

Perot Systems Corporation has been selected by the Kingdom of Jordan to manage the pilot deployment of the open source
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21 January 2009

German health minister praises regional EPR project

The city of Bottrop, North Rhine Westphalia, has launched a private electronic patient record project that utilises the new German
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21 January 2009

United Healthcare settles on ‘fixed’ database claims

Two of the largest US health insurers have agreed deals to pay tens of millions of dollars to create independent
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20 January 2009

Fuji Film acquires Russian subsidiary

Fuji Film Corporation has acquired its Russian distributor of medical and imaging products. The acquisition, carried out through its European
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19 January 2009

Study finds US PHR use remains low

Despite high levels of interest, the vast majority of US citizens have yet to use or create a personal health
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16 January 2009

Dubai hospital gets Philips iSite PACS

Tawam Hospital in Dubai, part of the United Arad Emirates, has celebrated the ‘go-live’ of Philips’ iSite Picture Archiving and
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13 January 2009

HL7 releases child health EHR standard

Health Level Seven (HL7), the healthcare IT standards development organisation, has released the first standard specifying the key functional requirements
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12 January 2009

Web coaching helps weight management, says study

Counselling via the phone and internet are better methods for helping people reduce their weight than simply giving them self-help
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9 January 2009

Antwerp selects Agfa for cardiovascular imaging

The University of Antwerp Hospital has awarded a contract with Agfa to provide it with enhanced cardiovascular diagnostic imaging and
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7 January 2009

Germany’s e-health smartcard scaled back

Key clinical components of Germany’s flagship national e-health smartcard programme look set to be dropped or delayed because of problems
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