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Tenet Healthcare Corporation announced today that its two hospitals in Philadelphia, Hahnemann University Hospital and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, have reached agreement in principle on terms of new contracts. Extended their current agreements while they define terms for new multi-year contracts. | | Read more... |
Advancements in obstetrics and gynaecology ultrasound, hand-carried ultrasound as well as other smaller market segments such as urology and surgical ultrasound are driving the European ultrasound market. | | Read more... |
GE Healthcare, the $17bn healthcare business of General Electric Company (GE), announced the formation of a new joint venture GE El Seif Healthcare Arabia. The new company will drive the sale of GE Healthcare's products in Saudi Arabia, and has 51:49% ownership by GE and El Seif Development, respectively. | | Read more... |
Carillion IT Services is working with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to
design and install a scalable, secure wireless local area network
(wireless LAN) and radiofrequency identification (RFID) portable
asset-tracking solution. | | Read more... |
ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker,
plans to bankroll a string of health centres in India in a bid to
reduce infant mortality in the country.
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Bayer HealthCare announced the launch of a new online tool EZ-Log Web Client hat allows hemophilia patients and healthcare providers to record and track treatment on the EZ-Log Web site. | | Read more... |
McKesson Healthcare services and information technology firm has announced the availability of its workforce management suite - a complete solution suite that manages the most important asset of any healthcare enterprise, its human capital. | | Read more... |
Affiliated Computer Services has successfully completed Phase I of the
Government of Malta's Integrated Health Information System (IHIS).
Along with iSOFT, a key technology partner, ACS has installed a
state-of-the-art IT infrastructure that connects laboratory, radiology
and image archiving communication systems and integrates them with
iSOFT's Patient Administration System and Clinical Order Communication
and Results Reporting System. | | Read more... |
Abbott Park, Illinois — Abbott recognized 24 companies with its
Supplier Excellence Award. Winners were recognized for exceptional
contributions to Abbott in 2007, and were chosen from over 15,000
worldwide suppliers because of outstanding performance and continuous
improvement in supplying materials, equipment and services to Abbott. | | Read more... |
Roche filed licence applications in both the United States and in
Europe for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with their innovative
arthritis treatment drug, Actemra (tocilizumab). | | Read more... |
Royal Philips Electronics, Dutch company has reached an agreement with the shareholders of Shenzhen Goldway to acquire all outstanding shares in the firm it's the second largest company in China in domestic patient monitoring company.
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Abbott has introduced the ARCHITECT® i1000SR® immunochemistry analyzer, expanding its ARCHITECT family of diagnostics instrument systems for clinical laboratories Designed for labs that typically perform less than 200 immunoassay tests per day, the instrument addresses many of the workflow challenges common in today’s laboratories.
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The Siemens Acuson P50 is a new laptop-based ultrasound system with integrated echocardiography software. The system is designed for mobile applications in cardiology, musculoskeletal and vascular imaging, as well as in the operating theatre and anaesthesiology departments. | | Read more... |
Belgium-based Agfa HealthCare will be demonstrating its electronic patient records (EPR) solution ORBIS, at Healthcare Computing 2008 conference in Harrogate, UK later this month. | | Read more... |
A cluster of EU research projects, collectively known as the SFIT Group are piloting garments which can measure a wearer's body temperature or trace their heart activity. The European Commission scheme, known as Biotex, is focused on supporting the development of smart textiles. Miniaturised biosensors in a textile patch can analyse body fluids, such as sweat, and provide an accurate assessment of the wearer's health. | | Read more... |
Biotronik GmbH & Co KG, the pioneer in wireless remote monitoring technology for patients with cardiac devices, announced today the world’s first implantations of the new Lumax 540 implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) devices in 11 hospitals in seven countries. | | Read more... |
Healthcare tracking pioneer Radianse has taken a major step forward to ease the installation of real-time location systems (RTLS). | | Read more... |
Siemens Healthcare has announced the addition of a mammography digitizing system from Carestream Healthcare to its Accessory Solutions product portfolio. The digitizer is offered through Siemens to US health care providers. | | Read more... |
SynaMed, LLC, an award-winning leader in healthcare technology, announced the launch of its free online Personal Health Record available to all patients.
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McKesson has acquired Rosebud Solutions, a provider of software solutions to track and manage instruments, endoscopes and tissue implants for surgical services, as well as medical crash carts and mobile equipment. | | Read more... |
Royal Philips Electronics has announced it will acquire Northern Ireland-based Tomcat Systems Ltd. Tomcat is a privately held company producing cardiovascular information systems (CVIS).
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Visage Imaging has revealed the latest innovations to its Visage Thin Client solutions portfolio and demonstrated groundbreaking levels of performance and scalability for integrated 2D, 3D and 4D advanced visualisation, at the 31st Annual Course - Society of Computed Body Tomography & Magnetic Resonance (SCBTMR), March 30 - April 4, 2008, in Charleston, South Carolina. | | Read more... |
GE Healthcare announced that it has completed the acquisition of VersaMed Corporation, a provider of portable critical care ventilators for respiratory care. VersaMed's innovative product offering will expand GE Healthcare's capabilities in respiratory care management, offering healthcare professionals a wide choice of unique advanced life support ventilators to meet a variety of patient needs and care settings. | | Read more... |
Roche Diagnostics has announced the global launch of an enhanced software (Version 7.0) for its flagship bloodgas analyser; the cobas b 221 system. | | Read more... |
A leading global provider of healthcare products, today announced that its Surgical Devices business unit has launched three new access products in Europe, VersaStep(TM) Plus 15mm, Visiport(TM) Plus with fixation and Versaport(TM) Plus RPF 15mm with fixation. The European launch follows the United States introduction of all three products earlier this month. | | Read more... |
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