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St. Jude Medical gets CE Mark
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Medical device manufacturer St. Jude Medical of St. Paul, MN, reported that it has received European CE Mark approval for its QuickOpt timing cycle optimization application.
June 15, 2006
Agfa inks French Orbis deal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare reported that the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) of Toulouse, France, has selected its Orbis electronic medical record (EMR) system.
June 14, 2006
Xograph notches Planmed deal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiology products supplier Xograph Imaging Systems of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, U.K., has signed a deal to be the U.K. distributor for Planmed of Finland.
June 14, 2006
U.K. seeks to speed EHR adoption
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The U.K.'s Health Minister, Lord Warner, has set a date of early 2007 for the country to begin pilot studies of its electronic healthcare record (EHR) system, the National Health Service (NHS) Care Records Service.
June 14, 2006
Amateur marathon runners risk heart trouble
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 14 - The findings are based on a study of 20 amateur athletes who ran the 2003 Boston Marathon and underwent echocardiography prior to, immediately after, and about one month after running the 26-mile race. The study was published in the European Heart Journal.
June 13, 2006
Philips' SpeechMagic to support Spanish hospitals
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Spanish IT provider Indra will implement speech recognition technology from Philips Speech Recognition Systems in all radiology departments of Spain's Castilla-La Mancha regional healthcare service.
June 12, 2006
European cardiac PACS market shows growth
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The European cardiac PACS market produced revenues of $73.6 million in 2005, and is expected to grow to reach $200.5 million by 2012, according to market research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan.
June 12, 2006
Asteral opens new headquarters
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Managed equipment services provider Asteral has moved its headquarters to Reading, Berkshire, in the U.K.
June 12, 2006
Philips implements Web-based PACS in Europe
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems of Andover, MA, said it has begun providing its Web-based iSite PACS service to the St. Franciscus Hospital in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
June 12, 2006
U.K.'s NICE and SMC give green light to Herceptin in early breast cancer
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale for Reuters Health), Jun 12 - Roche's Herceptin (trastuzumab) gained simultaneous recommendations on Friday from the England and Wales cost-effectiveness watchdog, NICE, as well as the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC), for women with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer.
June 11, 2006
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Medtronic nets French reimbursement approval
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Interventional technology firm Medtronic said it has received reimbursement approval in France for its Endeavor drug-eluting coronary stent system.
June 11, 2006
Multislice CT identifies significant coronary artery disease before valve surgery
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 9 - Multislice computed tomography (MSCT) can accurately identify significant coronary artery disease prior to aortic valve replacement surgery, according to a report in the May 16th Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
June 8, 2006
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