85% of Online Europeans Use the Internet for Health Information
In 2009, 85% of online Europeans in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain turn to the Internet and other technologies for health and prescription drug information, according to the latest Cybercitizen Health® Europe v9.0 study from healthcare and pharmaceutical market research company Manhattan Research. The collaboratively-edited Wikipedia again proves to be a top online health resource for consumers in all of the countries surveyed.
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Digital Pens Improve Treatment of Acute Diabetes in Germany
Mobile technology is helping those with acute diabetes in Germany manage their illness more effectively so that long-term complications associated with the illness can be treated earlier.
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UK's Leading Clinical Managed Service Provider Forms New Health Links with China
Home Telehealth Limited (HTL), the premier UK provider of telehealth solutions and disease management services; and winner of the prestigious 'NHS Innovations Partnership with the NHS Award 2009' is once again in demand for its innovative nurse-led Telehealth Care Centre clinical managed services; this time from China.
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Nuance announces SpeechMagic 7 and SpeechMagic Solution Builder 2.0
Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading supplier of speech solutions, introduces version 7 of its speech recognition platform SpeechMagic and version 2.0 of SpeechMagic Solution Builder, a clinical documentation application for German-speaking countries, Finland and Spain. Nuance made the announcement during its first European healthcare partner meeting in Vienna (November 12-13, 2009).
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Lincor Announces Launch of Next Generation Enterprise Server MES2.0 for Hospital Bedside Computing
Lincor Solutions, the leading provider of global bedside computing solutions to hospitals, has announced that it will release its unique MEDIVista Enterprise Server software (MES2.0) at MEDICA 09 in Düsseldorf, Germany on November 18-21 2009.
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medavis Integrates Nuance Speech Recognition
medavis GmbH, a leading provider of medical information systems will present the medavis RIS with fully integrated speech recognition, using the Nuance SpeechMagic (TM) software, at MEDICA 2009. The direct integration into the RIS workflow enables radiologists to quickly and efficiently produce reports, via speech recognition technology, in their normal system environment.
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One Health Alliance Expands its Healthcare Portfolio
Following the launch of the One Health Alliance earlier this year, two further companies have joined to enhance the solution portfolio offered by the Alliance. They include Sunquest Information Systems and BridgeHead Software. These new members have been specifically selected to further enable the Alliance to deliver an umbrella of services and solutions to match all the technology needs demanded by today's global healthcare providers.
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