Keywords: Digitilization
03/01/2009
E-prescribing in the US
President Barack Obama has made e-prescribing an element of his plan to improve the US healthcare system …
03/01/2009
Carestream Health launches DRX-1 System in Europe
Unveiled last September, a new digital X-ray system Carestream DRX-1, is considered a breakthrough. …
03/01/2009
Speeding up health-care administration
Human interaction is of the utmost importance in healthcare services, but with ever-increasing demands on tight budgets, which increase pressures on staff and service levels, …
03/01/2009
Airport style check-in for patients
United Kingdom Next year, patients arriving at a new 1,200-bed hospital opened by the new University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) will be able to register …
03/01/2009
Spring IT congresses and the economic outlook
April, the month of showers and flowers, and most importantly for those working in healthcare IT, two European congresses: ConhIT and Med-e-Tel. …
02/27/2009
Health IT is as important as water or electricity
The Nordic countries have a reputation for being among Europes avant-garde in the field of digital healthcare solutions. HealthTech Wire talked to Arto Ryymin, executive Vice …
02/11/2009
Sectra enters the Greek market
The Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra has signed a distribution agreement with the Greek company Proton S.A., a provider of medical imaging and security systems …
12/20/2008
Hospitals cannot survive without IT
A study carried out this year by the VHitG e.V. (a German association of IT solutions providers for healthcare) produced the first complete market analysis of systems installed in …
12/20/2008
Digital pens quickly collect care data
Within a project named Healthcare Documentation & Digital Pen, Hamburg based IT firm Allpen is to supply digital pens to 300 employees of the healthcare association Diakonie …
11/21/2008
SurgiMedia
ISIS of France, specialist in computer-based surgical equipment, is unveiling the latest version of its SurgiMedia an integrated display system for operating theatres (OT). …
11/21/2008
Hitachi's virtualised multi-purpose infrastructure solution
Healthcare organisations have suffered for decades due to highly fragmented data, and IT managed by individual departments has resulted in a plethora of incompatible systems. …
11/04/2008
Neues Telemedizin-Internetportal in NRW
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Telemedizin und die ZTG Zentrum für Telematik im Gesundheitswesen GmbH, haben eine engere Zusammenarbeit beschlossen. Beide Partner sind …
10/29/2008
The Hitachi HealthXchange Module and Mawell M7 solution
Increasing populations and the additional storage requirements for a spiralling volume of their medical data cause acknowledged concerns among healthcare organisations. …
10/29/2008
Real time EPRs go mobile
Medical professionals have immediate access to patients clinical records. They are able to check results and to ask for internal consultations: This is possible thanks to the …
10/29/2008
epSOS
Members of the EC Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Ilias Iakovidis, Deputy Head of Unit, and Project Officers Flora Giorgio and Michael Palmer, outline the …
10/28/2008
Radiation dose and digital mammography
The use of mammography to maintain breast health comes with a caveat: exposure of the breast to radiation, which can increase the susceptibility risk of breast cancer. Thus, using …
10/28/2008
Tracking equipment performance is vital to control radiation dose
Although there should always be concern about radiation in a facility that uses X-ray to image patients, that concern is perhaps not as vocal as for CT or interventional …
10/14/2008
Kommt jetzt die Medizin 2.0?
Die Mitwirkung der Internet-Nutzer ist - unter dem Begriff Web 2.0 zusammengefasst - bereits zum Modewort geworden. Diese Form der elektronischen Einflussnahme hat zumindest …
10/02/2008
Carestream Health Unveils First Wireless, Cassette-Size DR Detector
Carestream Health, Inc., recently announced the industry`s first wireless DR detector that is the size of a standard cassette and can be used with existing wall stand or …
09/23/2008
On scandinavian tracks
The World of Health IT 2008 Conference & Exhibition is an innovative and forward-thinking event designed to deepen the understanding of specific healthcare ICT markets in …
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