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3 July 2008

AOK Plus to use ICW telemedicine system

German health insurers AOK Plus has commissioned InterComponentWare to implement a telemedicine system to care for patients with serious chronic
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2 July 2008

Europe aims for borderless electronic health records

The European Commission has launched two major e-health initiatives aimed at achieving interoperable e-health systems across Europe
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27 June 2008

Picis to deploy theatre systems across Madrid

The Madrid Health Ministry has chosen Picis to supply software to seven new hospitals in the region.
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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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20 June 2008

WHO calls for sharing of information in Europe

European countries should do a better job of assessing the performance of their health care systems and sharing that information
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19 June 2008

Sonic Healthcare acquires GLP Medical Group

German laboratory information system developer, GLP Medical Group, has been acquired by Australian diagnostics software specialist, Sonic Healthcare, in a
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18 June 2008

German medication specialists back decision support

Two leading members of the medication commission of the German National Chamber of Doctors have urged German hospitals to implement
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10 June 2008

Kaiser signs up for Microsoft’s HealthVault

Kaiser Permanente, the largest US nonprofit health maintenance organisation, has announced it will participate in Microsoft’s personal health record initiative
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29 May 2008

Anoto enables BlackBerry integration to digital pen

Swedish digital pen and paper specialist, Anoto, has partnered with wireless BlackBerry platform developer, PaperIQ, to enable digital pen and
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28 May 2008

First Dutch hospital connects to Switchpoint

St Jansdal hospital in Harderwijk, the Netherlands, has become the country’s first hospital able to retrieve patient medication information via
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