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12 June 2009

European hospitals share real-time videos

Hospitals in Norway, Italy and Spain have been linked together using an advanced video conferencing system enabling them to share
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18 May 2009

Simulator trains surgeons to be more efficient

Danish research has found that using simulators to train surgeons can make them twice as quick and more precise when
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15 May 2009

EU issues privacy guidance for RFID

The European Union has issued new recommendations covering the future use of bar codes and radio frequency identification devices (RFID)
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13 February 2009

Hospital uses Twitter for live surgery updates

Micro-blogging service Twitter has been used by US surgeons to provide real-time updates on a live robot-assisted surgical procedure.
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4 February 2009

Barco sells Advanced Visualization to Toshiba

Belgian medical imaging specialist Barco has announced that the company closed the divestment operation of its Advanced Visualization (AVIS) activities
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15 December 2008

Commission sets out steps on patient safety

The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm
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14 October 2008

Carestream supports Ebay for radiologists

Carestream Health is to provide technical infrastructure to the European Union-funded project to create an Ebay-style online market for radiology
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8 September 2008

Picis launches real-time theatre dashboard

Theatre systems specialist, Picis, has launched a real-time dashboard to provide hospital perioperative departments with real time clinical analytics. Originally
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31 July 2008

IBM develop simulator for osteoporosis

IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory and scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) have developed a new system
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25 June 2008

Safer surgery tool launched by WHO

The World Health Organisation has devised a new safety checklist designed to help cut the number of preventable surgical complications
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