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8 May 2009

GE to spend $6 billion on health tech

General Electric is to invest €4.5 billion ($6 billion) over the next six years in innovative healthcare technology, the firm
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22 January 2009

Jordan picks Perot to help implement VistA

Perot Systems Corporation has been selected by the Kingdom of Jordan to manage the pilot deployment of the open source
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15 January 2009

SNOMED made free to low income countries

Free licenses for the use of SNOMED CT are to be made available to users in 47 low income countries,
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14 January 2009

Global IT spend to fall in 2009

Weakening economies is set to push spending on information technology products and services down 3% after seven years of continuous
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11 December 2008

Nuance and GE complete RIS-SpeechMagic integration

Nuance Communications has successfully integrated its SpeechMagic technology into GE Healthcare Centricity Radiology Information System (RIS). The development is said
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8 December 2008

JAC wins South African pharmacy contract

Medicines management software specialist JAC has won a contract to provide the latest version of its pharmacy management software to hospitals
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7 November 2008

Microsoft launches EMEA Health User Group

A year after Microsoft first announced plans to establish a health user group (HUG) for Europe, the Middle East and
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4 August 2008

Geneva boosts telemedicine in Francophone Africa

The decentralised nature of the Swiss confederation has given cantonal governments wide autonomy to spend their money, and Geneva authorities
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24 October 2007

HealthVault for Europe? Not just yet

One of Microsoft’s senior managers for healthcare has told E-Health Europe that the company would like to bring a version
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23 October 2007

Microsoft to launch EMEA Health User Group

Microsoft is to partner with the US Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to launch an interactive Health User
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