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17 January 2008

Austrian hospitals get fingerprint biometrics

Austria’s biggest private hospital chain, the ‘Barmherzige Brüder’, is to begin using biometric fingerprinting to control access to IT systems.
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14 January 2008

Turkish doctors pilot new decision support system

European and Turkish doctors and technicians have developed a medical support system, Saphire, which can track patients’ real-time vital signs,
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8 January 2008

“Hospital information systems are not indispensable”

Hubert Haag says that with 12,000 European healthcare customers T-Systems is a vital player in European e-health, Philipp Grätzel reports.
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7 January 2008

Philips buys patient monitoring specialist Visicu

Royal Philips Electronics has agreed to acquire US-based clinical IT firm Visicu for around €290m, to expand its patient monitoring
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2 January 2008

Computer interfaces without keyboards

A group of European scientists have used acoustic sensors to turn wooden tabletops and even three-dimensional objects into a new
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31 December 2007

Keyboard-free access could benefit health

A group of European scientists have used acoustic sensors to turn wooden tabletops and even three-dimensional objects into a new
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28 December 2007

Two hospital search engines launched

Two major German health insurance companies have presented new hospital search engines for citizens in order to increase transparency of
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18 December 2007

Ospedale di Lecco hospital group gets Orbis EPR

Italy’s, Ospedale di Lecco hospital group has gone live with the elements of Orbis electronic patient record supplied by Agfa
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17 December 2007

New blood tracking system used across Europe

An image-based blood tracking data capture solution is helping to save lives and reduce waste in hospitals across Europe. BloodTrack
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14 December 2007

IBM to implement SAP for Aragon health system

Luis Javier Bonilla The government of the Aragon region of Spain has signed an agreement worth a total of €3m
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