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Agfa acquires HYDMedia

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare of Mortsel, Belgium, said that it has acquired healthcare document management system provider HYDMedia of Rottenburg, Germany.

January 31, 2007

Medima signs Goodman

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Dutch healthcare IT developer Medima Solutions has inked an OEM agreement with Japanese cardiology PACS provider Goodman Healthcare IT Solutions.

January 30, 2007

Scandinavian health IT firms to merge

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Finnish healthcare software and services provider Mawell and Swedish software firm eCare plan to merge on February 1.

January 30, 2007

Agfa continues German Orbis install

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare of Mortsel, Belgium, said that it has completed the initial phase of the implementation of its Orbis hospital information system (HIS) at the Vivantes Netzwerk für Gesundheit in Berlin.

January 24, 2007

Testing procedure improves usability of DICOM CDs

By Erik L. Ridley

DICOM CDs are commonly used today to disseminate patient images and information, but many of them suffer from deficiencies that can hinder image viewing and integration into PACS networks. To help deal with the problem, the German Roentgen Society (DRG) initiated a quality assurance initiative designed to improve the quality of DICOM CDs.

January 21, 2007

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Orion Health rolls out EHR in Spain

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Healthcare information technology developer Orion Health of Auckland, New Zealand, said that Hospital Universitario Son Dureta in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, has gone live with an electronic health record (EHR) and clinical applications portal.

January 17, 2007

3mensio enters surgical visualization market

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization developer 3mensio Medical Imaging has signed a contract with the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands for the development and delivery of a new surgical visualization product, 3surgery.

January 17, 2007

German screening trial finds high accuracy for VC

Results from the first 300 patients screened in the ongoing Munich Colorectal Cancer Prevention Trial indicate that virtual colonoscopy with 64-slice CT is sensitive and specific for the detection of polyps of all sizes. The researchers in Germany found that conventional colonoscopy had a slight edge in diminutive polyps, but virtual colonoscopy did a little better with the larger lesions.

January 16, 2007

Siemens to acquire GSD

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Siemens Medical Solutions has agreed to purchase longtime partner Gesellschaft fur Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen (GSD), a German developer of health information systems.

January 16, 2007

Sectra nets Netherlands RIS/PACS contract

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish healthcare technology and device developer Sectra reported that Leiden University Medical Center has signed a RIS/PACS deal with the Linkoping-based firm.

January 15, 2007

Sectra notches Belgian PACS sale

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish healthcare technology developer Sectra reported that Henri Serruys Ziekenhuis AV, a hospital located in Oostende, Belgium, has purchased the firm's radiology PACS.

January 8, 2007

GST, Crown sign U.S. distribution deal for PhoneidoS

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Gruppo Soluzioni Tecnologiche (GST) of Trento, Italy, has signed a distribution agreement for its PhoneidoS speech recognition application with Crown International, a distributor of speech recognition products.

January 3, 2007

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