IBM teams with Google to mobilise patient data
New software to enable data to be easily moved from remote personal monitoring devices into Google Health personal health records announced.
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Brent PCT rapped over data loss
A third English NHS Trust in the space of a month has been required to take enforcement action by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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Germany invests €125m in ambient care
The German national ministry of research has announced a major funding program for ambient assisted living.
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Waiting not an option
The chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust tells Jon Hoeksma why it can’t wait for NPfIT to deliver.
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Rotherham set to announce EPR contract
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is set to announce the award of a contract for a new electronic patient record system that will see it spend an estimated £30-40m over the next ten years.
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Wales to stamp out medical scrawl
Doctors and nurses in Wales are going to have to use stamps as well as their signature in a bid to combat illegible scrawled signatures on patient notes. The initiative is being introduced because some clinicians signatures are not legible. The stamp will be used along with signatures. Dr Andrew Dearden of the BMA said […]
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Barco sells Advanced Visualization to Toshiba
Belgian medical imaging specialist Barco has announced that the company closed the divestment operation of its Advanced Visualization (AVIS) activities to Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, the AVIS group specialises in 3D clinical software, marketed worldwide under the product names ‘Voxar 3D’ and ‘Voxar 3D Enterprise’. Toshiba now owns all […]
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Call for co-ordination on ID card security
ENISA has published a position paper highlighting problems with current and planned European electronic ID card schemes.
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First Continua certified patient monitor
International telehealth and personal health system interoperability group, Continua Health Alliance, has announced the launch of the first Continua-certified patient monitor. The device from Nonin Medical is a handheld pulse oximeter with USB, 2500 PalmSAT. Nonin says it plans to offer Continua certified tools across its product lines. After two years of work from more […]
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VA fined €15m over lost laptop data
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has agreed to pay €15m ($20m) to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by five veterans’ groups over allegations of lost confidential medical data dating from 2006. According to US press reports the allegations claimed that the department exposed veterans to possible identity theft as a result of the […]
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