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Austrian hospitals get fingerprint biometrics

Austria’s biggest private hospital chain, the ‘Barmherzige Brüder’, is to begin using biometric fingerprinting to control access to IT systems.
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Carestream aids tumour screening in Albania

Carestream Health is providing computed radiography solutions, printing systems and professional services to an EU-funded screening project between Italy and
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Turkish doctors pilot new decision support system

European and Turkish doctors and technicians have developed a medical support system, Saphire, which can track patients’ real-time vital signs,
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Video assistance devices launched for elderly

A new mobile video assistance technology programme funded by the European Commission’s eTEN programme and designed to aid elderly people
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Commission plans to accelerate e-health market

The European Commission has published a new strategy aimed at accelerating the growth of the e-health market in Europe.
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T-Systems boss says e-health based on integration

Achieveing connected, interopreable e-health systems in Europe, particularly in hospitals, will increasingly be based on the ability to successfully integrate
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“Hospital information systems are not indispensable”

Hubert Haag says that with 12,000 European healthcare customers T-Systems is a vital player in European e-health, Philipp Grätzel reports.
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Philips buys patient monitoring specialist Visicu

Royal Philips Electronics has agreed to acquire US-based clinical IT firm Visicu for around €290m, to expand its patient monitoring
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Sicily uses Orbis to evaluate EPR plans

Agfa HealthCare’s ORBIS Electronic Patient Record software is to be used in an evaluation of sharing patient information across the
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IBM to implement SAP for Aragon health system

Luis Javier Bonilla The government of the Aragon region of Spain has signed an agreement worth a total of €3m
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