Agfa HealthCare and Worldline Sign Major Regional Imaging Agreement with Alsace e-Santé
Agfa HealthCare and Worldline, acting as a consortium, have won the SIMRAL (Alsatian regional medical imagery services) project to provide a bundle of shared medical imaging services for the entire region of Alsace (France), following a 12-month competitive dialogue procedure.
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HIMSS Europe Opens Nomination Process for the 2014 HIMSS Europe eHealth Leadership Award
HIMSS Europe has launched the nomination process for the HIMSS Europe eHealth Leadership Award, which recognises an individual who, in the judgment of the HIMSS Europe Governing Council, has demonstrated significant leadership in promoting the use of information technology in healthcare in Europe[1].
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NHS Wales Goes Live with InterSystems TrakCare Lab System
InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that NHS Wales has successfully completed the first phase of the national roll out of InterSystems TrakCare® Lab, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary laboratory information management system (LIMS). The first phase of the implementation, covering all four labs in the Hywel Dda Health Board, is a major step in one of the largest and most complex pathology modernisation programmes in the western health economy.
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Research Shows GPs are Switched on to EPS
New research from doctors.net.uk has revealed that GPs' use of electronic prescriptions is gaining momentum. An online survey of 834 GPs in England found that 15% of respondents had already switched to EPS R2, with 25% of those not currently using electronic prescriptions planning to upgrade in 2014.
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CompuGroup Medical Doubles its Market Share in the Sector of Doctors Information Systems in France
CompuGroup Medical AG, one of the leading global providers of eHealth solutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Imagine Editions and Imagine Assistance, both based in Soulac Sur Mer (France). Through this acquisition the amount of doctors operating with CGM software products doubles to 40.000.
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Opinion Article: Where Next for the Portal?
By Dr Joel Ratnasothy, Medical Director EMEA for Caradigm.
The problem is that a portal in a healthcare IT context is a loosely defined term to describe a web page that displays information retrieved from other systems. The systems it connects are ideally 'Best of Breed' applications that manage specific clinical tasks such as medical imaging or blood sample testing. But the broader IT industry no longer talks about web portals, but it is talking about ‘big data’.
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Philips Celebrates 100 Years of Research
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today kicked off celebrations of the one hundredth anniversary of Philips Research at a special stakeholder event in Eindhoven. Since the development of its first light bulb, the company is focusing on innovations that matter to people, such as technologies that will make healthcare more affordable and accessible, energy-efficient LED lighting solutions that will improve people's wellbeing and make the world more sustainable, as well as locally relevant consumer appliances and services.
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