IBA boss: battle has just begun
Gary Cohen, the Australian chief executive of IBA Health, has good reason to celebrate – IBA Health is now poised to take control of Britain’s iSoft.
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Data Management: migration
For the IT manager in charge of getting data out of a legacy system and into a new PAS, the challenge can be daunting.
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Data Management
Anyone who has ever moved house will have had that awful moment of trying to figure out how on earth to get that wardrobe out of the box room and wondering what it will look like in the new bedroom.
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Patient pressure to drive Choose and Book
Choose and Book boss Dr Stephen Miller explains why he believes it will be patients that force the adoption of the national service.
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PACS – worth the hype?
‘Your doctor will never look at you in the same way again’ – Joe Fernandez asks one radiologist at St Peter’s Hospital Chertsey what his experiences are digital x-rays have been.
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NHS Wales’ IT programme ‘getting balance right’
After an exhaustive examination of NHS Wales’ progress in IT, Gwyn Thomas seemed pleased with the reports coming back to him last week.
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60 Second Interview: Colin Price
Joe Fernandez quizzes Dr Colin Price, formerly of the NHS Centre for Coding & Classification and now an independent consultant and researcher in health informatics.
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60 Seconds Interview: Lindsay McClure
Joe Fernandez quizzes Lindsay McClure, head of information services at the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee.
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IT underpins development of NHS Direct
NHS Direct is banking on new technology to help deliver better services and cope with record levels of demand, Joe Fernandez reports.
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World of Health IT
WHIT ’07, which will be held in the Austria Centre, Vienna, from 22-25 October, is keen to achieve consensus within the eHealth community and has developed a series of group packages for delegates from all sections of the community to facilitate this.
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