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Philips awarded Spanish contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agencia Valenciana de la Salut in Spain will add SpeechMagic speech recognition technology from Philips Speech Recognition Systems of Vienna to the region's Java-based RIS.
December 18, 2006
Patients to get veto on NHS electronic records
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Dec 19 - The U.K. government said on Monday it would back controversial plans to place medical records of patients in England on an electronic database, although people will be able to prevent their details being accessed.
December 18, 2006
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U.K. minister overseeing health IT project to retire
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Dec 15 - Lord Warner, the health minister closely involved in Prime Minister Tony Blair's troubled project to create a new database for Britain's health service will retire, the government has said.
December 14, 2006
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IBA to supply radiopharmaceuticals to Spain
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Belgian nuclear medicine products firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has been named by the regional health authorities in the Spanish region of Andalusia as its exclusive supplier of FDG and other radiopharmaceuticals.
December 13, 2006
Agfa signs St-Jozef
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has received an order from St-Jozef Hospital in Izegem, Belgium.
December 12, 2006
Elekta shows Q2 downturn
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta reported a slight slump in its sales and profit for the firm's fiscal 2007 second quarter (end-October 31).
December 11, 2006
Cordis launches lower-leg catheters
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Cordis Endovascular has introduced its Frontrunner XP chronic total occlusion (CTO) catheter and Outback re-entry catheter for the treatment of blocked lower-leg arteries in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
December 11, 2006
Britain's NHS aims to balance its books this year
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Dec 12 - The government vowed on Monday that the National Health Service would clear its deficit and return a financial surplus next year. Last year the health service ran up a net deficit of 512 million pounds on a budget of 76 billion pounds and is currently predicted to have a shortfall of around 94 million.
December 11, 2006
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IBA starts shipments from new Italian facility
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Belgian nuclear medicine products firm Ion Beam Application (IBA) of Louvain-la-Neuve has begun distribution of PET radiopharmaceuticals from a facility in Rome, Italy.
December 10, 2006
Benefits of mammographic screening in young women still unclear
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 8 - Mammographic screening for women in their 40s does not significantly reduce breast cancer mortality compared with screening starting at 50 years of age, the current recommendation, new research indicates. The present findings, which appear in the December 9th issue of the Lancet, are consistent with what has been seen in other studies.
December 7, 2006
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Elekta notches Toronto contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta has sold two of its Synergy linear accelerators, as well as an oncology PACS from Impac Medical Systems of Mountain View, CA, an Elekta company, to Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre.
December 6, 2006
Agfa starts Tuscan RIS project
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has launched the second phase of its Tuscan Medical Technology (TMT) hospital digitization project, in which it will install its RIS product in 12 hospitals of the central Tuscany region of Italy, the Mortsel, Belgium-based vendor said today.
December 6, 2006
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