Over the past years, TietoEnator has integrated ITB, Waldbrenner, and Cymed - three companies which had all realized functional and powerful Hospital Information System solutions and components for more than 200 customers. The strengths of the individual solutions are being brought together in one single common platform extend by several new features. A team of developers across TietoEnator has…
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announces today at MEDICA that it will be presenting its entire Computed Radiography solutions family range at RSNA 2007, to be held in Chicago from 25 until 30 November. From desktop and compact solutions to groundbreaking Computed Radiography systems that fill the gap between CR and DR, Agfa…
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 treatment of patients with chronic conditions.
Just in time for Medica, VISUS has expanded its products portfolio with a PACS solution for cardiology.
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.
In 1996, NDS Surgical Imaging developed and launched the first Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technologies for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) viewing applications.
As in past years, this year's MEDICA is one of the most important stages for the medical technology industry. International manufacturers will do a song and dance to dazzle the international clientele. As Managing Director of the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (Deutscher Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie e.V. - ZVEI), Hans-Peter Bursig, is well…
Medical errors occur in any part of the treatment process and typically involve the wrong medication, improper treatment, or incorrect or delayed test results. At its annual partner meeting, which took place in Berlin, September 27-28, Philips reinforced its commitment to use its leading global position in healthcare speech recognition to drive technology advancements towards reducing medical…
End user presentations at the Philips partner event provided insight into industrial grade speech recognition deployments in hospitals.
To increase speech processing potential for heavy dictation users, Grundig Business Systems GmbH, of Bayreuth, Germany, recently introduced its first mobile dictation recorder with colour display and Soft Touch Composite.
Germany - The Munich Municipal Hospital is network four hospital locations in Bogenhausen, Harlaching, Neuperlach and Schwabing, and facilitate the digital production and storage of X-ray images along with individual patient data and diagnosis results, using GE Healthcare's Centricity RIS/PACS.
Medical errors occur in any part of the treatment process and typically involve the wrong medication, improper treatment, or incorrect or delayed test results. At its annual partner meeting in Berlin Philips reinforced its commitment to use its leading global position in healthcare speech recognition to drive technology advancements towards reducing medical errors and improving patient safety…
SpeechMagic has received Citrix Ready status after successfully completing verification testing that proved joint system compatibility.
3M Health Information Systems' document creation products will soon be “powered by SpeechMagic”, to provide customers with leading-edge documentation solutions that bring simplicity to the complex process of medical reporting.
GE Healthcare has acquired Dynamic Imaging LLC, which specialises in Web-based image and information management.
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Philips announced new professional services, which allow the SpeechMagic integration partners to capitalise on the company's unique know-how and expertise in healthcare documentation.
A compact portable, easy-to-use ECG machine, the MAC 400, was launched in Europe by GE Healthcare at the recent European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
21st. Analytica 2008 held in april 2008 in Munich, Germany.
An international study to evaluate radio-frequency identification as a hospital risk management tool in medical care.
San Diego, California - 20,000 international physicians, scientists and other visitors travelled to the Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) in July, and 750 exhibitors emphasised the increasing importance of this gathering
The updated Olympus dotSlide digital virtual microscopy system can scan entire slides at high resolution and fidelity, making them accessible and fully navigable anywhere in the world. Using any of the three models - dotSlide MD (manual); dotSlide SL (fully automated, with slide loader), and dotSlide TMA (with a tissue micro-array module) - users can examine a virtual slide as if seeing the…
A pilot project begun in February by the Ministry of Health and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) has resulted in Bulgaria issuing its first electronic medical cards. The pilot project is run by the international eHealth specialist ICW* in partnership with the firms Cisco and Kontrax.
Turkey - The recently opened 74-bed Florence Nightingale Kiziltoprak Hospital, which has three operating rooms and 10 ICU beds, is one of four hospitals in a Turkish healthcare network.
Otologics' Carina could improve the quality of life for patients suffering from hearing loss. The fully implantable hearing device uses a transducer to move the middle ear bones - much like the eardrum causes the middle ear bones to vibrate in response to sound wave. Carina implantation surgery takes about three hours and is an easy procedure with low surgical risks. (The whole article is only…
