8 March 2013

Interoperability tops bill in Big Easy

Interoperability proved the favorite topic for the US health IT industry gathered in New Orleans this week for the annual
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6 March 2013

Cerner and McKesson join US alliance

Six heavyweight electronic medical records vendors have announced plans to develop common interoperability standards to create a new national set
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5 March 2013

US hospitals making progress on EMRs

US hospital IT leaders report strong progress towards electronic medical records, with two thirds saying they have achieved the first
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14 February 2013

Trusts could lose contracts without EPR

The NHS Commissioning Board is drawing up plans designed to dramatically accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records by NHS
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22 January 2013

Athenahealth buys Epocrates for $293m

US cloud-based patient record specialist Athenahealth has purchased Eprocrates, a provider of mobile drug reference apps, for $293m (£185m).
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22 January 2013

Hospitals to have e-records by 2014

NHS hospitals will need to have operational electronic patient records working by April 2014 to meet the data flow requirements
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12 December 2012

CCIO sought by NHS Commissioning Board

The NHS Commissioning Board is advertising for a part-time Clinical Informatics Director to fulfil a national Chief Clinical Information Officer-like
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11 December 2012

Rhidian Bramley commended in HSJ awards

Rhidian Bramley, consultant radiologist and chief clinical information officer at The Christie in Manchester, has been highly commended at the
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3 December 2012

Next ten Lorenzo adopters each get £1m

The next ten NHS trusts that commit to take Lorenzo from CSC under the firm’s new National Programme for IT
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6 November 2012

Stevens launches Aura Healthcare

Aura Healthcare, a software firm specialising in portals based on web 2.0 technologies similar to those that underpin Twitter, has
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