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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

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

28 March 2008

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

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

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.

19 March 2008

VDE paper supports telemonitoring for diabetics

German industry association, VDE, has published a paper on telemonitoring for diabetic patients. The paper urges politicians to make greater

19 March 2008

Imperial integration

The UK's first Academic Health Science Centre is generating a significant systems integration challenge for the merged institution’s IT professionals.

19 March 2008

ePractice launches eHealth Procurers Forum

The European Commission’s ePractice website has launched a new eHealth Procurers Forum where practitioners involved in e-health procurement can meet

17 March 2008

ICW looks to integrate PHRs with iPhone

InterComponentWare (ICW) has announced plans to integrate the Apple iPhone and other smartphones with the Life Sensor personal health record

14 March 2008

Carestream updates Information Management Solution

A new version of Carestream Healthcare’s Information Management Solution (IMS) unveiled at the European Congress of Radiologists this month, is to be made