T-Systems Dialog Forum for Health - Experts Discuss New Solutions for Resource Optimization
T-Systems is supporting dialog in the healthcare sector and invited guests to an expert panel titled "Hospitals - A Bottomless Pit?". In the plenum, invited experts discussed solutions for optimizing resources and gave recommendations on how to handle future health sector reforms.
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Philips' Third Quarter Results 2008 - Healthcare Sector
Healthcare and Lighting maintained solid growth in much tougher markets, with sales up 5% and 6% respectively on a comparable basis. Commercial delivery of Philips' cutting-edge Brilliance iCT scanner continued, with recent installations in healthcare facilities in the US, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.
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XIRING and SCM Microsystems Jointly Develop Mobile Terminals for German eHealth Market
XIRING (NYSE Alternext: ALXIR), a European leader in security solutions for remote transactions, and SCM Microsystems (NASDAQ: SCMM; Prime Standard: SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, today announced their close collaboration to develop mobile eHealth smart card terminals for the new generation German healthcare system.
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Agfa-Gevaert Discloses Details Regarding the Belgian Part of a Global Cost Savings Program
As announced on the occasion of the publication of the second quarter results, Agfa-Gevaert is planning an important reduction of its operational costs. The worldwide savings program has now been finalized. Its goal is to reduce the Group's operational costs by 120 million Euro before end of 2010. This savings program mainly concerns a reduction of the sales and general administration costs.
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Nottingham City Council Unveils Pioneering Approach to Improving Care for People with Dementia
Nottingham City Council has announced the launch of an innovative service that uses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to identify clothing belonging to individual residents, enhancing care provision for people with dementia, maintaining their identity and independence and promoting dignity in care.
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Siemens Presents the Future of Health Care at Medica 2008
At Medica 2008, which will take place in Düsseldorf from November 19 to 22, 2008, Siemens will present its complete portfolio for the health care sector. Fully integrated medical technology, from a single system to the corporate level - in the health care field this has become the standard requirement. For this reason, Siemens Healthcare has set its sights on being the best integrated healthcare company in the world.
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Nij Smellinghe Hospital in The Netherlands Chooses Remote Archiving from Carestream Health
Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, The Netherlands, has selected Hosted Information Management (HIM) service from Carestream Health to remotely archive existing and future patient data. Under a contract between the companies, which runs for five years, the HIM service will securely store an estimated 9 Terabytes of both DICOM and non-DICOM images in a central data centre, from which authorised users can archive, share and distribute patient data.
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