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iSOFT Signs New Deal with Dutch Care Group

iSOFT Group Limited (ASX;ISF) has announced a three-year contract with Dutch care group Zorggroep Noorderbreedte (ZNB) to further develop its hospital information system and electronic patient record at the Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden (MCL), a large teaching hospital in the Netherlands.

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iSOFT's Response to UK Government's Health White Paper

iSOFT, one of the world's leading health information technology companies, welcomes the measures outlined in the UK government's white paper, 'Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS'.

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Research Identifies £300m Potential Cost Savings for NHS Trusts

Details of the new NHS spending plan released by the health secretary includes a sustainable plan for the NHS to deliver efficiency savings in the same way as the rest of the public sector.

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Carestream Health Announces Distribution Agreement with DMS Group in France

Carestream Health in France has signed a distribution agreement with Apelem, a subsidiary of the DMS Group in France. Under the terms of the agreement, Carestream can sell two new Platinum remote controlled radiographic tables developed by Apelem exclusively to customers in France and Belgium.

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iSOFT Wins New Customers in Germany in Deals Worth A$5.8m

iSOFT Group Limited (ASX: ISF) has won contracts with five new customers in Germany in the past month totalling €3.9 million (A$5.8 million).

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Voice Technologies Awarded Contract for Walton Centre

Voice Technologies has been appointed by the Walton Centre to provide digital dictation solutions to the Trust, with the agreement taking place under the Framework Agreement for NHS Trusts in Yorkshire and Humber.

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The European Files: The Telemedicine Challenge in Europe

The aim of this special edition of "The European Files" is to help take stock of the development of telemedicine, in all its diverse forms, and in a range of different environments. It is a collection of accounts and analyses by political and industrial decision-makers, patients and professional healthcare representatives, who seem to be best-placed to communicate messages that are both brief and easily understandable to all audiences.

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Development of the Information Society in Russia

At the meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of the Information Society in Russia dedicated to assessing interim results and prospects of employing information and communication technologies, Dmitry Medvedev noted that their development and implementation have special relevance in a country like Russia, given its enormous distances.

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CSC Announces Partnership with Savience

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced a partnership with healthcare kiosk specialist, Savience, to expand its offering of electronic health systems designed to improve the quality and accessibility of patient information available to clinical and administrative staff.

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Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust Selects InterSystems Ensemble for Seamless and Resilient Information Sharing

InterSystems announced that Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust is set to connect its clinical IT systems via a new integration hub, based on InterSystems Ensemble®. Trafford Healthcare were using an old version of a proprietary interface engine, without a back-up or test platform.

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