Search Tag: IT solutions
2014 18 Feb
From 6th to 10th March 2014 the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), organized by the European Society of Radiology (ESR), will be held again in Vienna. Visitors are travelling from all around the world to visit Europe's biggest medical imaging meeting with its accompanying exhibition, numerous lectures and seminars. aycan will present its latest...Read more
2014 14 Feb
Following robust pilots, 125 new sites implement seamless solution offering relevant and varied imaging data in one platform - Recently launched, IMPAX Agility is already bringing quality outcomes to over 125 hospitals around to world. - Modern IT platform enhances clinical productivity and performance, while reducing costs. - Streamlined...Read more
2014 11 Feb
A customer in Scandinavia has signed a four-year agreement with the IT and medical technology company Sectra. The order value amounts to SEK 32 million (approx. EUR 3.4 M). The agreement includes development, maintenance and support for the customer’s regional IT solution for managing medical images and patient information, the Sectra RIS and PACS....Read more
2014 10 Feb
iConnect Enterprise Archive and iConnect Access to deliver real‐time clinical data and enable seamless integration of critical patient information across various care settings Merge Healthcare Incorporated, a leading provider of innovative enterprise imaging, interoperability and clinical systems that seek to advance healthcare, has announced...Read more
2014 07 Feb
Carestream’s Works-in-Progress PACS, Archive, Image Viewer, Patient Portal and Cloud Services Will Be Upgraded With New 64-Bit Windows/Intel Technology to Elevate Performance While Reducing Costs Carestream will showcase upgrades to its healthcare IT portfolio at HIMSS 2014 as works in progress that include a new CARESTREAM Vue PACS...Read more
2014 06 Feb
Respondents Said Vue PACS Offers Advanced Features and Ease of Use Carestream’s Vue PACS earned high ratings in MD Buyline’s Market Intelligence Briefing for Fourth Quarter 2013, in which users say the system is both feature-rich and easy to use, and they note that “Carestream is forward thinking with mobile access and products that provide...Read more
2014 06 Feb
Fluke Biomedical, the world's leading manufacturer of biomedical test instruments, has announced the acquisition of Unfors RaySafe. With this acquisition Fluke Biomedical adds industry leading quality assurance devices for diagnostic x-ray from Unfors RaySafe. With an enhanced portfolio especially in the fields of diagnostic x-ray, real-time...Read more
2014 05 Feb
The Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA), a non-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating innovation in electronic health record software and related technology, has been invited to host a special session at the 2014 Healthcare Information and Management Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition on Sunday, February 23,...Read more
2014 03 Feb
The medical imaging IT company Sectra announced that its acute care PACS has been awarded “Best in KLAS” by the research firm with the same name in the “2013 Best in KLAS: Software and Services” report. The initial version of Sectra PACS was installed more than 20 years ago and is now responsible for managing over 70 million annual radiology...Read more
2014 31 Jan
Agfa HealthCare enhances industry-leading ICIS platform with “single sign-on, single view” capabilities and seamless image sharing across Healthcare Information Exchanges and Accountable Care Organizations ICIS Transfer expands clinical and medical image sharing and collaborative patient care across HIEs and ACOs New “single sign-on,...Read more
2014 30 Jan
Consolidating clinical communications, patient-centric workflow and a real-time clinical team directory, a secure smartphone application connects all members of a patient’s care team and enables better patient care at a lower cost. Mobile Heartbeat launches Mobile Heartbeat CURE (Clinical Urgent REsponse), a smartphone application enabling secure...Read more
2014 22 Jan
Agreement will deliver a series of shared services to healthcare and radiology facilities across Alsace Agfa HealthCare and Worldline are acting as a consortium to implement an innovative solution for sharing medical images. The SIMRAL project foresees to archive and share more than 1 million imaging exams per year, amongst 53 facilities...Read more
2014 20 Jan
Two 20-foot HP Performance Optimised Data Centres will meet Trust's compute requirements for the next seven to ten years HP has announced that the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has improved its IT services while saving space, time and costs by installing two HP Performance Optimised Data Centres (PODs) at the Ulster Hospital, Belfast....Read more
2014 17 Jan
Company Developing New Technology for Medical and Dental Imaging, Healthcare IT Applications Carestream Health was awarded 64 patents from the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2013 for innovations in radiology imaging, healthcare IT, dental imaging and other areas, reflecting another successful year in developing advanced technology across its global...Read more
2014 17 Jan
Calgary Scientific Inc., a company known for creating transformative technology for the medical industry and beyond, announced it has become a member of the Health and Life Sciences Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program of Hitachi Data Systems, and will partner with Hitachi Data Systems to deliver the next generation of Vendor Neutral Archive...Read more
2014 14 Jan
hTEE QuickStart App Provides ICU Bedside Tutorials & Support ImaCor, Inc., the developer of the world's first and only hemodynamic transesophageal echocardiography (hTEE™) technology, has released the hTEE QuickStart mobile application. This app complements ImaCor's comprehensive hTEE training program and provides clinicians easy access to how-to...Read more
2014 13 Jan
From planning to hand-off, Siemens IT Adoption Center speeds implementation IT Adoption Center framework was developed and validated with Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA). MSHA used the framework to bring 13 hospitals live in 18 months. The framework is available to all Siemens customers using Soarian® or any other enterprise health...Read more
2014 07 Jan
In the cell nucleus, DNA carries out its activities in a diluted state where it synthesises proteins and, despite resembling a messy tangle of thread, its structure is in actually governed by precise rules that are important for it to carry out its functions. Customarily, biologists have studied DNA by observing it experimentally with a number...Read more
2014 03 Jan
Established as standard practice across North America’s healthcare centers and hospitals, the Electronic Health Record (EHR) is not commonly used in countries with fewer resources, where patient data is still collected on paper, if it is even collected at all. A study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons...Read more
2013 20 Dec
Quicksilva’s orQestra now boosting patient data accuracy in radiology and audiology departments with access to Personal Demographics Service NHS staff at Medway NHS Foundation Trust are being given real-time access to the NHS’s Personal Demographic Service (PDS), with a new software system from Quicksilva, an independent supplier of healthcare...Read more
2013 19 Dec
Independent review awards highest rating to European project The GÉANT project, which includes the high-speed data network serving 50 million research and education users across Europe, has received ‘Excellent’, the highest possible rating in a European Commission review. This puts GÉANT in the top 10% of all EC-funded projects. ...Read more
2013 18 Dec
Working in partnership with Health Academy North West The City of Liverpool College is launching the first Health Informatics Cadet Apprenticeship. An emerging field in the UK, Health Informatics involves managing electronic health data to ensure patients get the most appropriate care and the apprenticeship scheme will give young people a stepping...Read more
2013 17 Dec
•Streamlined navigation and workflow deliver clinical productivity benefits for radiologists •Task managed workflows enhance the delivery of care •Advanced platform design leverages modern IT technologies to maximize performance and reduce costs Agfa HealthCare has announced the first two U.S. sales of IMPAX Agility, a brand new imaging platform...Read more
2013 10 Dec
Leading healthcare institution in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia partners with Datix and Health Matrix to reduce risk and improve patient care. Datix, a global supplier of patient safety software announced that King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) has chosen Datix to streamline processes and introduce a more efficient, integrated...Read more
2013 06 Dec
MEDSEEK Empower patient portal offers online appointment scheduling MEDSEEK is partnering with Baptist Health South Florida, the largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in South Florida, to provide patients the tools to manage their health online with the MEDSEEK Empower enterprise patient portal. Integration between inpatient...Read more
2013 05 Dec
Breakthrough software innovation delivers improved clinical capabilities, personalization, lower costs and operational results At the 2013 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, unveiled four software breakthroughs to deliver improved clinical capabilities, productivity...Read more
2013 04 Dec
BridgeHead partner INHS implements secure, on-site private Cloud that lets hospital protect its data within the firewall, Achieves MEDITECH Best Practices BridgeHead Software announced that The Good Shepherd Medical Center (GSMC), a progressive, not-for-profit hospital located in Hermiston, Oregon, has deployed the BridgeHead Software Health...Read more
2013 03 Dec
The digital archiving environment solution will optimize productivity, improve workflow and offer immediate access to all hospital files, from anywhere. HYDMedia will allow the hospital to centralize its documents, whatever their type, source and format. The system will give the hospital better control over operational costs by strongly...Read more
2013 03 Dec
Improves RPO/RTO delivered by deduplication for local backup and offers remote backup with optimized speed and network utilization. BridgeHead Software, a leader in healthcare data management, today announced BridgeHead Deduplication for Backup and Recovery along with integrated support for HP StoreOnce Backup. Ideally suited for hospitals that...Read more