Digital Pen Shortens Breast Screening Waiting List in France
Anoto Digital Pen & Paper technology has helped reduce waiting lists for breast cancer screening in France by significantly shortening the time it takes to analyse mammograms. Normal turnaround times of up to three hours were reduced to less than 30 minutes. This means that breast cancer screening centres using the digital pen will be ready for the second stage of France's national 'Plan Cancer' programme, set to start early in 2008.
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Maccabi Healthcare Services Wins Microsoft Customer Award
Leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare Services has won a Microsoft Customer Award for its successful development and deployment of a customer relationship management (CRM) system based on Microsoft's Dynamics CRM platform. The first of its kind in Israel, the system integrates all member requests to any Maccabi branch or its national call center from its member-patients throughout Israel all through a single, unified, simple-to-operate computer system.
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Agfa HealthCare Showcases Leading eHealth Solution at WHIT 2007
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announced that its Bioserveur eHealth solution will be showcased during a number of lectures at the World of Health IT (WHIT), held in the Austria Center in Vienna, from October 22nd until 25th. In total some 8,382 doctors across France and its overseas departments and 700 laboratories are actively using the solution today.
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Microsoft and HIMSS expanding Healthcare User Group across EMEA
During the World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition today in Vienna, Microsoft Corp. and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced a broad expansion of the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) to partners and healthcare organizations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
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Google Health Prototype Speculations II
Google Health Product discussions are facing now a 'second age', but two previous announcements are requiring a special attention. Both of them are coming from different sources, from different companies and in a different time interval, nevertheless by a simple aggregation one message could be underlined.
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The Sun Virtual Desktop Solution at the WHIT 2007
In the frames of the upcoming World of Health IT Conference 2007 Sun Microsystems will be presenting the Sun Virtual Desktop Solution - Caregiver mobility with security. The Sun Virtual Desktop Solution addresses healthcare desktop challenges by providing caregiver information mobility with security. The Sun solution starts with virtualizing complete desktop environments and installing them in the datacenter where they can be secured, managed, and maintained. Now, a few servers can be managed instead of hundreds or thousands of desktop devices.
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BridgeForward to Launch an Embeddable Interface Engine at WHIT 2007
BridgeForward Software, a leading provider of application integration technology to the healthcare industry will introduce an embeddable, private-label version of its flagship interface engine, ClearSpan Server for the European market at the World of Health IT Conference being held in Vienna, Austria next week.
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Anoto Digital Pen & Paper technology has helped reduce waiting lists for breast cancer screening in France by significantly shortening the time it takes to analyse mammograms. Normal turnaround times of up to three hours were reduced to less than 30 minutes. This means that breast cancer screening centres using the digital pen will be ready for the second stage of France's national 'Plan Cancer' programme, set to start early in 2008. 
Leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare Services has won a Microsoft Customer Award for its successful development and deployment of a customer relationship management (CRM) system based on Microsoft's Dynamics CRM platform. The first of its kind in Israel, the system integrates all member requests to any Maccabi branch or its national call center from its member-patients throughout Israel all through a single, unified, simple-to-operate computer system. 
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, announced that its Bioserveur eHealth solution will be showcased during a number of lectures at the World of Health IT (WHIT), held in the Austria Center in Vienna, from October 22nd until 25th. In total some 8,382 doctors across France and its overseas departments and 700 laboratories are actively using the solution today. 
During the World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition today in Vienna, Microsoft Corp. and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) announced a broad expansion of the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) to partners and healthcare organizations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). 
Google Health Product discussions are facing now a 'second age', but two previous announcements are requiring a special attention. Both of them are coming from different sources, from different companies and in a different time interval, nevertheless by a simple aggregation one message could be underlined. 
In the frames of the upcoming World of Health IT Conference 2007 Sun Microsystems will be presenting the Sun Virtual Desktop Solution - Caregiver mobility with security. The Sun Virtual Desktop Solution addresses healthcare desktop challenges by providing caregiver information mobility with security. The Sun solution starts with virtualizing complete desktop environments and installing them in the datacenter where they can be secured, managed, and maintained. Now, a few servers can be managed instead of hundreds or thousands of desktop devices.
BridgeForward Software, a leading provider of application integration technology to the healthcare industry will introduce an embeddable, private-label version of its flagship interface engine, ClearSpan Server for the European market at the World of Health IT Conference being held in Vienna, Austria next week.