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20 October 2009

€22.5m for Dutch biobank network

The Dutch government has awarded a consortium of health research groups €22.5m to establish a national biobanking infrastructure. The project,
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14 July 2009

Philips reports falling health sales

Dutch technology and healthcare giant Philips has reported a big fall in second quarter profits and sales, but says conditions
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25 June 2009

E-therapy website to be launched in UK

A new website based on e-therapy methods developed in Holland is to be launched next month in the UK. A
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2 February 2009

iSoft renews Dutch hospitals for €9m

Isoft has renewed contracts with two hospital groups in the Netherlands totalling €9m. In the largest deal, Erasmus (medical centre)
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28 January 2009

Philips cuts 6,000 jobs

Dutch consumer electronic and health technology giant Royal Dutch Philips has reported a fourth quarter loss of €1.47bn (£1.4bn) and
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12 January 2009

Web coaching helps weight management, says study

Counselling via the phone and internet are better methods for helping people reduce their weight than simply giving them self-help
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17 November 2008

Dutch healthcare system rated Europe’s best

The Netherlands has been named as having the best healthcare system in Europe, emerging as the overall winner in the
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14 October 2008

Microsoft says Amalga speech deal unchanged

Microsoft's licensing deal with Philips Speech Recognition Systems to integrate the firm's speech recognition technology in its Amalga health software
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26 September 2008

Dutch EPR rollout on track

The Dutch national electronic patient record project is progressing slowly, but steadily. Sixty five doctors have been connected to the
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24 September 2008

Dutch study raises concern about phone triage

A study of out of hours services in the Netherlands has revealed shortcomings in the way patients are triaged. The
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