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ICW selected for US telehealth programme

German e-health specialist InterComponentWare (ICW) has been selected by US health network Coventry Health Care to provide the infrastructure for
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iPLATO lets patients update records automatically

Patients of the Bush Doctors and Richford Gate Medical Practice in Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust will soon receive
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Philips to lead ‘euHeart’ project

Royal Philips Electronics is to lead a pan-European project to develop advanced computer modelling to enable highly personalised diagnosis and
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Medical data breach insurance offered in US

Members of a US healthcare purchasing alliance are now able to take out insurance to cover the financial costs of data breaches.  The
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Version 3 of HL7 released

Developer of global healthcare standards, Health Level Seven, has announced the release of Version 3 Normative Edition 2008, a globally-defined
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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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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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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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Malta’s Mater Dei gets bedside entertainment

Irish based patient entertainment specialist, Lincor Solutions, has implemented its bedside TV and clinical access system, MEDIVista at the Mater
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New mammography module allows double-checks

A new mammography module for the Kodak Carestream Radiology Information System has helped to improve mammography screening administration in three
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