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Hi-tech bed sheets to monitor heart rate

Patient’s heart being monitored via bed sheet. Philips Research is to pilot a new bed with built-in sensors and the
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BridgeForward to integrate Dictaphone solution

Nuance’s Dictaphone Healthcare Solutions division will use BridgeForward Software’s Edge4 integration layer to support integration of its Vocada Veriphy critical
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Google Health unveils electronic record pilot

Google is piloting a system which lets patients transfer their existing medical information to its new online Personal Health Record.
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Ortivus reports losses due to delays

Swedish health IT developer, Ortivus, has released its year-end report for 2007, announcing an operating loss of 53.9m Swedish Krona,
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Irish blood records stolen in New York

A CD containing over 170,000 confidential blood donor records form the Irish Blood Transfusion Service has been stolen in New
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Finding reliable health information online

Healthcare information is abundant online, but it can be hard to know what is current and medically correct. Joe Fernandez
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Helios Clinic Group to introduce doctors’ portal

Germany’s Helios Clinic Group is to introduce a group wide doctors’ portal product called jesaja.net, to be delivered by CompuGroup
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Cerner Ireland opens in Dublin

Cerner has opened a new office in Dublin as it prepares to implement RIS/PACS and Order Communications across parts of
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Interoperability road map in development

A Turkish research consortium is developing a road map for e-health interoperability that would eventually link up the health information
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Castilla-La Mancha chooses Steria for healthcard

The Health Service of Castilla-La Mancha (SESCAM), Spain, has chosen Steria to implement its new healthcard system. The new system
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