IBA boss says Lorenzo ‘will happen’
The chairman of IBA Health has told E-Health Insider that he is not aware of any problems that would prevent the installation of Lorenzo at three NHS pilot sites this summer. In an exclusive interview with EHI Gary Cohen says of the long-delayed NHS delivery of the first software carrying the Lorenzo badge: “There is […]
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NHS Direct Online to be moved to Choices
Parts of NHS Direct Online, the highly successful and popular web-based patient advice and information service, look set to be transferred to rival NHS Choices. The planned move is not thought to impact NHS Direct’s core nurse-led national telephone advice service, which handles over 8 million calls a year. NHS Choices, the patient information portal run […]
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IBA boss says corner turned on iSoft
Six months after his company bought iSoft, Gary Cohen, chairman of Australia’s IBA Health, speaks to E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma.
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Commission says e-health must grow up
The deputy head of European Commission’s ICT for Health unit has called for everyone involved in developing e-health to seize advantage of the current window of opportunity to move from pilots to large-scale implementation.
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Call for semantic health interoperability
A leading UK academic has called for a new push on the development of semantic electronic health records based on ‘clinical archetypes’ as the only viable route to deliver fully interoperable electronic health care records, writes Jon Hoeksma in Slovenia. Dr Dipak Kalra of University College London said clinical archetypes, or “clinical shapes” need to […]
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Newcastle chooses Pittsburgh for EHR
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre to deploy electronic health record technology at Newcastle’s hospitals.
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New approach called for on Telemedicine
Experts gathered in Luxembourg to debate the future of telemedicine yesterday were told that new financial and business models are needed to make telemedicine part of mainstream healthcare, rather than many “unsustainable” projects. Mark Lange, head of the European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) set out the challenge: “The question that we are addressing now is […]
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Wanted: someone to lead on NHS IT
It might be one of the biggest civil IT projects on the planet, but the Department of Health appears to be having problems finding someone willing to lead it.
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Southampton to deploy 18-week reporting system
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust is to deploy a new 18-week wait, data warehouse and patient level costing system from Ardentia, in a bid to meet targets and monitor costs. The trust will use Ardentia’s Pathway Manager in order to meet national 18-week reporting requirements and manage patient pathways from initial GP referral to acute […]
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Wellpoint Sentinel System to monitor drug safety
US health insurer WellPoint Inc is developing a system that will use its 35m member database to monitor and more quickly identify potential safety problems of approved medicines. Launching in mid-2009, the new system is expected to be capable of continually monitoring its 35m member database and identifying increases in health problems among members taking […]
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