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28 February 2008

Steve Case says health ‘revolution’ has begun

Steve Case says Revolution Health has begun to build the first steps of a consumer revolution in healthcare, potentially as
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28 February 2008

The bigger picture at HIMSS

Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.
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26 February 2008

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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22 February 2008

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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21 February 2008

Wales increases telemedicine spend

Hospitals across Wales are to be given a share of almost £33m to buy new telemedicine equipment and improve patient
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20 February 2008

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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19 February 2008

Health informatics one of the ‘grand challenges’

Advancing health informatics has been listed as one of the 21st century’s greatest challenges by a panel of leading engineers
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18 February 2008

Siemens plans acquisition of CAS innovations

Siemens Healthcare has unveiled plans to strengthen its position in the field of computer-assisted surgery with the acquisition of German
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13 February 2008

GE buys Image Diagnost International

GE Healthcare has acquired German based Image Diagnost International, a provider of IT systems used in the diagnosis of breast
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13 February 2008

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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