IT: Telemedicine
11/16/2007
Siemens Medica Press Conference
Siemens in collaboration with the Rhön -Klinikum and the Fraunhofer ISST announced that in December, they will start an electronic case file (eFA) pilot project. For the first …
11/15/2007
Stresspilot navigates to a healthier life
Be active and live healthy! You would love to do that but you are too busy just trying to juggle your daily life? Help might be underway: the Stress Pilot. Developed by …
11/15/2007
BlackBerries may be good for your health
Researchers in the United Kingdom, Canada and Sweden are taking part in a study to ascertain whether the use of BlackBerries to transmit real-time health information can boost the …
11/15/2007
Seeking distributors, partners or investors
After a successful market penetration, TMA Medical (founded 1993) is currently expanding its Mobile Care Unit (MCU) introduction worldwide. …
11/15/2007
Bids begin to increase telecare
At Telecare 2007 exhibition held in Birmingham, UK, this September, Moira Mackenzie, the Scottish Executives Telecare Programme Manager spoke of aim of the countrys new …
11/15/2007
Home monitoring for cardiac patients
The St. Lucas Andreas Hospital in Amsterdam-West, the first in the Netherlands to begin the daily remote monitoring of cardiac patients at home, is using the Philips Motiva …
11/15/2007
Telemedicine research
USA A team of researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is working to advance the integration of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) into existing …
11/15/2007
Stethoscope v. MP3 player
Sweden According Canadian physician Neil Skjodt a simple MP3 recording device gave a superior performance in auscultation of lung and heart sounds. …
11/15/2007
MEDICA MEDIA 2007
Hall 16 While it is often possible to determine drug costs (or at least the defined daily dose) it is often impossible to determine actual costs of a particular case. …
10/30/2007
Dictation on the move
To increase speech processing potential for heavy dictation users, Grundig Business Systems GmbH, of Bayreuth, Germany, recently introduced its first mobile dictation recorder …
10/30/2007
Health telematics
Telematics appears to offer solutions for certain complex therapies and for issues that will become central as populations further swell with age. …
10/30/2007
Reports from the field
End user presentations at the Philips partner event provided insight into industrial grade speech recognition deployments in hospitals. …
10/30/2007
SpeechMagic is Citrix Ready
SpeechMagic has received Citrix Ready status after successfully completing verification testing that proved joint system compatibility. …
08/31/2007
Hospital security
An international study to evaluate radio-frequency identification as a hospital risk management tool in medical care. …
06/26/2007
Fifteen Finnish hospitals go for EPRs
By Kaj Blomqvist MSc (E.E.), electronic engineer for the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), and currently in charge of the Picis CareSuite Project, which aims to …
05/01/2007
Speech recognition
Last year the European Commission, DG Health and Consumer Protection, observed that the health sector still lags behind other industries in introducing systematic safety processes …
05/01/2007
ICT improves patient safety
Improving patient safety and quality of care is of key importance for European citizens, and both the European Commission and Member States (MS) expect great benefits from new, …
05/01/2007
Merge Healthcare
Some 23 years ago, when William Mortimore set up a firm to focus on connectivity, a tool called MergeBox (which allows modalities to speak to other networks) inspired him to name …
11/14/2006
Eye software firm focuses on the US market
Marc Winchester is new President, North America of Digital Healthcare Inc. …
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