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Ge Healthcare
Ge Healthcare to Boost $500m in Home Monitoring Market GE Healthcare has entered into a technology and distribution agreement with New York-based Living Independently Group, Inc., which provides telecare and monitoring systems for seniors. GE Healthcare will distribute and co-market Living Independently’s QuietCare products globally. As part...
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Microsoft
Microsoft to Choose Philips Speech Tool for his, RIS/PACS Microsoft has tapped Royal Philips Electronics’ SpeechMagic solution as the preferred technology for the Amalga hospital information system and RIS/PACS. The global licensing agreement between the two companies will bring industrial grade speech recogniton to the Amalga enterprise healthcare tools....
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PICS
PICIS to Introduced Eview Enhanced Caresuite Product Picis has introduced its eView for Critical Care Manager, part of the newly launched version 8.2 of the company's CareSuite product range. The eView release is designed to consolidate clinically relevant data gathered during the patient’s ICU experience into a Web-based view, accessible to clinicians...
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Call for 'Universal' Broadband
Access to Broadband Internet is a Cornerstone to Make e-Health Meaning Full for Europe’s Citizens. On several occasions, EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding has expressed “two main concerns”. The first is that “broadband is not yet available to all. Deployment costs are high, particularly in distant and scarcely populated...
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Hospital IT Architectures: JEE, Net and Beyond
Author Hannu Virkanen and Juha Mykkänen, are with the University of Kuopio, Finland. JEE and .NET are the two major frameworks competing in the enterprise software development space. A debate on their similarities and differences has been running since the beginning of their coexistence. Are these comparisons...
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Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System
ECRI Institute Europe Weltech Centre Ridgeway Welwyn Garden City Herts AL7 2AA United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1707 871511 Fax: +44 (0)1707 393138 [email protected] www.ecri.org.uk ECRI Institute, a non-profit organisation, de dicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific...
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A Look Back at the EU RTD Programme FP-6(Part 2)
Our previous issue (HITM Vol. 3, Issue 3) provided a summary of 26 healthcare IT projects under the Sixth Framework Programme for Research (FP-6) which ran from 2001-06. We classified them into three categories used by the current Seventh Programme (FP-7): ICT and ageing, IT architecture and infrastructure, and bioinformatics and robotics. The second-part...
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Healthcare IT: The Business of the Profession
Author Tony Eardley and Adam Drury are consultants with Tribal Group. Successful IT supports a business environment by adding value to the organisation in achieving its strategic goals. In healthcare terms, this could mean better health outcomes for patients and safer, more effective services. It could also mean...
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The Challenge of Capacity Planning: A Core Role for IT
Author Knut Bergsland and Asmund Myrbostad are senior advisers at SINTEF Health Research in Norway (www.health-mic.org). Most European hospitals will have to expand their examination and treatment capacity in the future, as well as restructure core functions. Whether to remain competitive or for other reasons, it...
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Recommendation on Cross-Border EHR Interoperability
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, While much of Europe slumbered through its summer vacation, the program to build a pan-European e-Health network shifted up one notch, after the European Commission published a Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record (EHR) systems. At first sight, the Commission...
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