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Brainlab announced the 500th sale of its ExacTrac® patient positioning system for frameless radiosurgery. The scale of uptake highlights physicians continued focus on adopting clinically proven systems for high-precision cancer treatments and...
For Dako, one of the world’s leading companies within tissue-based cancer diagnostics, it is imperative that production equipment is constantly calibrated, verified and well-documented. ISS ensures that Dako is able to keep focus on its core...
The “VinMec International Hospital” in Hanoi was officially opened on Saturday the 7th of January. This 500-bed hospital covering 80,000 m² is the first project achieved by VK in Vietnam. The hospital was built in a spectacularly...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has introduced the Thermo Scientific SecureSette, a new cassette for histology laboratories that reduces embedding time by 50 percent. The innovative design of new SecureSette™ cassettes makes embedding extremely...
In healthcare today, change is everywhere.
An aging population, an increasingly knowledgeable consumer, a growing sophistication in technology…not to mention a wave of legislation and fiscal restraint that is redefining how...
Beckman Coulter, Inc. has released the AU5800 Automated Chemistry System series in Europe, available in four different scalable models. The AU5800 series improves processing time compared to the current AU2700 and AU5400 systems, meeting the demands...
"Research and development is one of Baxter's most important strategic priorities," says Bernhard Kutscher, vice president of R&D for Baxter in Europe. "With the company's emphasis on innovation, the new...
At Hospital Build 2011 in Nuremberg, Siemens presented its concepts and innovations for safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly hospital operations under the motto “Increasesafety, maximise efficiency.”
In modern...
The German Medical Technology Association BVMed advocates for clear perspectives for medical technology innovations. “There is a need for a common strategic positioning of industry, science, and politics on research, development, and...
On behalf of Siemens, the renowned German market research institute Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung (GfK) surveyed women aged 25 to 65 about the topic of breast cancer screening. The survey mainly addressed the women’s experiences with...
NHS figures show that about nine per cent of patients actually acquire infections during a hospital stay. This costs the Health Service around £1billion annually – money that could be saved by something as simple as regular hand washing...
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric, has announced a cost-effective, subscription-based library of online courses for nurses to learn and receive continuing education credit in clinical, leadership and development to help improve patient...
Mölnlycke Health Care has been awarded the ‘Best Overall Innovation’ Award for its O.R. Efficiency Partnership Program by the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP), a national charity that actively advocates safer surgery....
Carestream Health launched a new eHealth portal service at RSNA (Radiological Society of North America)' Annual Meeting last week, which will be available in Europe and the United States in early 2011. The new service, which is part of...
Texas-based VHA, a national healthcare network of more than 1,400 hospitals and 28,000 non-acute care providers, is using its nationwide comparative database to help US hospitals cut millions of dollars in wasted expenses from their high-cost...
Small hospitals with fewer than 150 beds are increasingly focusing less on traditional community clinical information systems (CIS) vendors and more on the large vendors, according to a new KLAS report.
The first KLAS CIS perception report...
Macclesfield District Hospital has implemented a bi-directional interface from iSoft to allow its robotic dispensing system to automatically update its pharmacy system when medicines are loaded or dispensed. The hospital, which is part of East...
Telehealth Solutions and NHS Highland have won a prestigious eHealth Award for 'Best Use of Innovation in Patient Care'. In March 2009, the firm’s HomePod, SurgeryPod and CommunityPod were used to monitor COPD (Chronic Obstructive...
The Rotherham NHS (National Health Service) Foundation Trust in the UK is rolling out new healthcare data and storage management solutions, developed by Woburn, Mass-based BridgeHead Software, to improve operational efficiency, cost savings and...
Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia’s largest publicly funded hospital, is the site of the latest installation of Siemens’ syngo®Dynamics image management system.
The hospital’s cardiac unit is regarded as one of...
The European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association (EDMA) and the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFCC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which will further enhance their coordination and collaboration on...
CSC, a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services, has launched a new easy-to-use application, which enables mobile healthcare professionals to access and update patient information at the point of care, using a BlackBerry...
Monitoring the storage and security of precious and vulnerable samples is an essential part of Good Laboratory Practice, often requiring a solution unique to the individual laboratory. IKS International (Rosmalen, the Netherlands) have developed two...
ORICS transmits surgeries live and in television quality with network support
The biomedical manufacturer BERCHTOLD is one of the technological pioneers in telemedicine. The Tuttlingen-based company integrated a ChromoVision camera in a...
Frost & Sullivan presents "2010 Best Practices Award – Pharmacy Automation Solutions" to Swisslog Healthcare Solutions
Based on its analysis of the European market for pharmacy automation systems, Frost & Sullivan named...
Denmark’s National Board of Health is First Health Governing Body Roll Out National Adverse Incident Reporting Solution
CSC has announced that Denmark’s National Board of Health will go live twith its adverse...
IMPAX Cardiovascular intends to expand offering with Image-Arena analysis and quantification tool for multimodal 2D/3D/4D data
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that...
The Ethianum in Heidelberg is one of the first clinics in Germany to align itself consistently according to sustainability criteria, thus making it a hospital in keeping with the spirit of Siemens' Green+ Hospital Programme. Working in...
Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products and recognised innovator in mechanical ventilation and respiratory care devices, has announced the results of a study examining the financial impact of postoperative pulmonary...
Royal Philips Electronics has supported a research project that shows heart failure patients who used an interactive telehealth system with motivational support tools at home spent less time in hospital and felt their quality of life had...
This video system will transmit video footage of an operation from the Inselspital Bern live and in real time. Congress attendees can participate in the surgery virtually while the OR team is available to them for questions and answers. At the same...
