Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, today announces that the Heilig Hartziekenhuis Mol hospital in Belgium has awarded it a significant contract to unify its medical workflow through the company's ORBIS(TM) solution. ORBIS is Agfa HealthCare's integrated Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS), specifically designed to manage the entire patient-centric information flow through all hospital departments. The implementation of ORBIS is expected to start in April 2007.
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iSOFT completes RIS project in BT's London cluster
iSOFT has installed its RadCentre radiology information system (RIS) at Chelsea and Westminster and Ealing NHS trusts as part of its contract with BT under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
All eight London trusts covered by the £3.9m deal with BT, the local service provider for London, are now fully installed.
SRIT to launch ACTchange - a framework enabling health care collaboration
Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) will be announcing, for the first time, at Med-e-tel 2007, Luxembourg 18-20 April 2007, its rapidly progressing Integrated Health Care Exchange (iHCx) framework. The framework called ACTchange, would be driven by patient-centric health care service rules. Its core value proposition lies in the elimination of care provider's dependency on an ever-changing technology landscape in owning, building, maintaining and operating health ICT infrastructure.
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Agfa HealthCare and the Free University of Brussels sign long-term research agreement
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of IT enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic imaging solutions, and the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel hospital, linked to the Vrije Universiteit Brussel university (Free University of Brussels), announce today they have signed a long term agreement to advance current research surrounding hospital IT and diagnostic imaging solutions.
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ROBOSOFT unveils ESTELE, worldwide first healthcare robot for tele-echography
ESTELE implements robuBOX leading technology of ROBOSOFT. This concept of tele-echography, validated by the LVR (Robotics & Vision Laboratory) of Bourges, on an original idea of Professor Arbeille and carried out first by the European Spatial Agency and the CNES, has been industrialized by ROBOSOFT, who, thanks to its experience in service robotics, succeeded in developing and producing off the shelf robots.
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Agfa HealthCare launches ORBIS(TM) in the United Kingdom
Agfa HealthCare announces that it is launching ORBIS(TM) in the United Kingdom. Displayed for the first time in the UK, at the Healthcare Computing 2007 in Harrogate, ORBIS has been designed to provide hospitals and healthcare facilities with an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solution, which includes scheduling activity management and communication software.
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Now Better Searching for Health Professionals
Although a nearly infinite amount of information is nowadays accessible via the Internet, it is not easy to systematically sort out the right information. This problem is addressed by Transinsight GmbH in Dresden, a company that develops knowledge-based search technologies in close cooperation with the Technische Universität Dresden. Now, after a development period of only six months, Transinsight GmbH has created MeSHPubMed, the worldwide first knowledge-based search engine for the medical sciences to be made available on the Internet.
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