Dutch healthcare system rated Europe
The Netherlands has been named as having the best healthcare system in Europe, emerging as the overall winner in the Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI) 2008.
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EHTEL publishes e-health patient charter
The European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) has published a patient charter defending patient
University of Virginia Health System expands deployment of Barco displays and online QA software
Medical imaging specialist Barco announced recently that it is supplying the University of Virginia Health System (UVA) with a growing number of diagnostic and DICOM-compliant clinical review displays throughout the institution as part of the facility’s ongoing technology purchases.
Medsynaptic Selected as a 2010 Red Herring Asia Top 100 Tech Startup
Red Herring announced its Top 100 Asia Award in recognition of the leading private companies from Asia, celebrating these startups
GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare recently announced that its Vscan pocket-sized visualization tool has been named the Grand Award winner for Health in Popular Science magazine
NHS Trust tests the RFID for tracking hospital equipment
The Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is testing the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track life-saving equipment.
Should you trust health advice from internet forums?
Health information on the internet used to be shaped by doctors. Now it’s being shaped by patients. And it’s patients, not doctors, who are making the real progress in providing health information that delivers what people really want to know. But how do you know if this information and advice is trustworthy, and worth heeding?
Fast forwarding cancer research using IBM World Community Grid
Canadian researchers expect to accelerate the war on cancer by tapping into a global network of hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer their idle computer time to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems.
Barco’s advanced visualization software fully integrated in Agfa IMPAX
Medical imaging specialist Barco has released a new version of its Voxar 3D advanced visualization software suite that is integrated in Agfa
HCG, Total join hands to fight breast cancer
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Google can help doctors to diagnose tricky cases
Researchers have said that a team of Australian doctors googled the symptoms of 26 cases for a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
IBM launches federal cloud to help claims processing
IBM has created a new Federal Community Cloud designed to help government organizations, such as the Department of Health & Human Services, respond to technology requirements more quickly and at lower cost.
New cancer care centre and medical college in Ahmedabad soon
Gujarat will gift a new state-of-the-art super specialty cancer hospital to the world, very soon. The Gujarat Cancer Society will extend its operations to the New Swadeshi mill campus near Chamunda bridge on Naroda Road, beginning from November 11, the auspicious Labh Pancham day.
