Personal Health Records and Hospital Connectivity for Belgium
eHealth specialist InterComponentWare AG (ICW) and the Belgian Vitalsys SA agreed upon a marketing and sales cooperation. Vitalsys will offer ICW's eHealth solutions for the Belgian market and make their HomeCare devices compatible with ICW's personal health record LifeSensor.
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Capgemini and dbMotion enter into Swedish partnership agreement
Capgemini Sverige AB and dbMotion Ltd., one of the world's leading software suppliers of Integrated Solutions for Health information Exchange (HIE), have entered into a partnership agreement. This means that Capgemini will become a prime dbMotion partner in Sweden for providing a comprehensive solution for a National Integrated Patient Summary and local/regional medical information consolidation.
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Antwerp University Hospital works with IBM and I.R.I.S. Solutions
The Antwerp University Hospital (UZA Belgium) has contracted IBM's long-term business partner I.R.I.S. along with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to deliver several backbone solutions for its electronic patient record (EPR). The project, which will include the digitization of the hospital's extensive medical archive, will increase process efficiency at the hospital's Medical Information department.
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HIMSS Opens European Office in Brussels, Belgium
The new HIMSS initiative is focused on bringing together healthcare IT professionals in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, or EMEA, who share the common goal of improving the delivery of healthcare through information technology and management systems.
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Barriers to eHealth deployment must be overcome
At the first World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition in Geneva, representatives of the European healthcare IT and ICT industry gathered to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing eHealth solutions in Europe today.
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CSW to work with Consortium to specify Finnish National Healthcare Information System
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Finland) has chosen the consortium headed by WM-data, to specify the Finnish national healthcare information system architecture. The consortium includes: Avain Technologies, Commit; Oy, CSW Group and Medici Data. This specification work will provide the foundation for a logically integrated healthcare service information system nationwide.
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Recent study points to cost savings of up to 30 percent with ORBIS hospital information system
At The World of Health IT (WoHIT) Conference, Agfa HealthCare announces the findings of a recent study that the company commissioned from Accenture on the economic efficiency of ORBISâ¢, Agfa's comprehensive hospital-wide clinical information system.
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