Pan-European 112 emergency number a reality
Citizens across all European Union countries can now access emergency services by dialling 112, the single European emergency number.
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Vodafone invests in mobile health firm
Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across mobile handsets.
Medicare to pay doctors to embrace e-prescribing
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled in the US, will offer financial bonuses to doctors who prescribe drugs electronically rather than on paper. Doctors who do not will face penalties from Medicare starting in 2012.
KLAS announces top-performing software and services vendors for 2008
Market research firm KLAS has named Epic as the highest-performing healthcare vendor across all market segments in its annual rankings, which were released recently.
Govt mulls medical devices price regulation Act
The Government would soon bring in a medical devices Act in a bid to regulate prices of healthcare equipment.
Apollo to foray into drug manufacturing
Apollo Hospitals, India
Transasia launches fully automated clinical chemistry analyser
Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd., leader in the clinical diagnostic segment, has launched the EM 200
European drugs to carry barcodes
Medicines sold across Europe will have to carry barcodes and other improved security mechanisms, under proposals unveiled by the European Commission to crack down on counterfeit drugs.
Commission sets out steps on patient safety
The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm from the healthcare they received.
Perfect vision for health informatics
Representatives of international and regional e-health advocacy groups are meeting at the Wellcome Trust in London this week to agree plans for building
New pharmacovigilance products launched
TAKE Solutions Ltd, a leading technology-enabled business solutions provider in collaboration with BaseCon A/S, a Danish Phamacovigilance products company, is launching a new range of Pharmacovigilance solutions for the Asia Pacific pharmaceutical companies.
Australian govt approves sharing of patient eRecords
At a recent meeting in Brisbane, health ministers in Australia have finally agreed on a national plan to share patients
Carestream chosen for Israel-wide RIS-PACS
Carestream Health has been awarded a EUR 19.4m (USD 25m) country-wide contract for a RIS-PACS project across Israel
