Philips Speech Recognition Systems acquires Kuhlmann-Informations-Systeme
Philips Speech Recognition Systems has acquired Kuhlmann-Informations-Systeme (KIS), a provider of dictation and speech recognition solutions for healthcare.
Dutch doctors close to burn-out
A recent survey of more than 2,000 trainee hospital doctors in the Netherlands has revealed that many are close to burn-out.
Help for the helpers
Healthcare systems in Africa are facing a huge threat in their fight against AIDS - an increasing shortfall of nursing staff. Workers are either infected themselves or can no longer cope with the daily fight against the disease. Despite this, there is hope - the first wellness centre for healthcare workers, which provides medical and psychological help to nursing staff and their families, was…
Helios introduces new generation of quality indicators
The Helios group of hospitals recently introduced a new scheme for a unified, comparable set of indicators to describe the most important services and quality parameters in hospitals. The model is a trend-setting step towards greater transparency - with less administrative effort.
Estonia leads the way in Baltic eHealth links
Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, boasts the country's third-largest hospital. East-Tallinn Central Hospital (ETCH) has 587 beds, 26,000 inpatients and last year recorded 425,000 outpatient visits. It dates from 1785 when the former Tallinn Central began to operate as a town hospital. However, in 2001, four hospitals and two polyclinics were merged to form ETCH.
An end to out-sourcing?
As MRSA affects about 300,000 patients and costs UK £1 billion annually, the country's public services union demands the return of in-house cleaners. Report: Peter Howieson
Advancing world hygiene standards
TopLine, the new range of bedpan washers/disinfectors from Meiko set new standards.
Water purity for dialysis patients
UK - Dialysis patients are exposed to 50 times more mains water than well people. The new 33-bed renal dialysis ward at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, uses at least 1,000 litres of water per hour from the mains water supply. To ensure constant flow - and water purity for patients - the ward has installed a water treatment system
Digital speech processing from Grundig Business Systems
One of world's leading manufacturers of professional dictation systems, Grundig Business Systems, has launched a new mobile dictation machine — the Digta 415.
TB - Tuberculosis
Discovery of cell receptor CCR5 might help tackle TB.
A sublime strategy for holistic diagnoses
Professor Erich Reinhardt (below), President and CEO of Siemens Medical Solutions and member of the Board of Management of Siemens AG, discusses the company's current and future strategies.
The electronic health card
„Through its engagement in various initiatives and publications ZVEI (the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association) consistently underlines the great potential of IT in the healthcare system — in Germany and Europe. “It's a milestone in German healthcare modernisation within a European context”, says ZVEI
RSNA/US launch for EU healthcare consultancy
Launched in 2005, and introduced to a broader healthcare public at the 2006 European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Agfa Healthcare Consulting is now to be introduced to potential customers beyond Europe - at this year's RSNA in Chicago.
Preventing hypothermia
A new, compact, fully portable Patient Warming System, is '..the most efficient, non-invasive method of temperature control currently available'
PNEUMONIA
It kills more children than any other illness. According to UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO) that includes AIDS, malaria and measles combined - yet pneumonia remains a forgotten disease. A report published by the two organisations aims to provoke action to reduce child mortality from pneumonia.
University hospitals have a market value
Tours company opens a medical centre within a centre of excellence
International Clinical Research Centre in Brno
The Saint Ann Hospital, in Brno, is about to commence a joint project with the renowned Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Virgen del Rocío
Spanish event surprised with a number of high-profile IT projects.
Sharing the load
New to MEDICA this year is MLR, whose automated guided vehicles (AGV) have been radically modified transport containers in hospitals.
Creating the right image for hospital beds
A new range of hospital beds, developed with both the needs of patients and nursing staff in mind, meets the highest expectations of functionality and design.
Cheering up the wards
While bringing friends and loved ones flowers can cheer them up, dealing with the vases can cause headaches for care professionals.
Closing in on the brain
The new Nextim system, eXimia NBS is a novel brain stimulation technology which provides individual measures of the health and functional capacity of the central nervous system, as well as of brain reactions to targeted magnetic pulses. Thanks to its advanced technology and proven clinical performance, the NBS system helps medical professionals to focus on the issues that matter the most - and to…
Defining the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)
New magazine should progress IT for healthcare.
Electronic patient records
The UK Health Minister has set out key details of what patients and the public can expect from the NHS Care Records Service.
Switzerland
The 6th Swiss eHealthcare Congress gave an overview about the latest topics concerning eHealth.