OLPC has potential for health
Computers provided to children in developing countries as part of the One Laptop One Child initiative could also be used to deliver health education and healthcare, according to a new report. Researchers from the National Library of Medicine in the US looked at how the laptops could be used in medical settings and concluded that […]
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German e-tendering for health launched
Three German procurement associations have banded together to launch a new e-tendering system called ‘eVergabe’, which has been developed by the Hessian software provider Healy Hudson. Like many other public authorities, hospitals often have to carry out European wide tenders. Furthermore, they have to operate increasingly economically without letting the quality of their work suffer. […]
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Hart green-lights major Welsh projects
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has approved the outline business case for the roll out of the Individual Health Record across Wales.
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Living Labs event looms
The European Commission is to run a Living Labs Information event in Brussels later this month, to provide information about its latest FP7 research calls. The event, which will be held on Wednesday, 14 January 2009, will provide participants with opportunities to exchange Living Labs related information. Through partnerships between citizens, businesses and public authorities, […]
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NHS Direct takes 250,000 festive calls
NHS Direct received more than a quarter of a million calls over the Christmas and New Year break, an increase of 16% on the same time last year. The health helpline answered 255,562 calls between 20 December and 1 January, compared to 221,225 during the same time last year. The busiest day was December 27, […]
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New media core to pandemic flu plans
A UK-wide 24-hour telephone and web-based service would be the only route for people to get anti-viral medicines in the event of a flu pandemic, according to the latest guidance. The advice from the British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee and the Royal College of General Practitioners, backed by the Department of Health, warns that […]
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Software aids planning for pandemic flu
More than 2,000 GP practices are to receive software to help them complete pandemic flu contingency plans. The software, the iQ Pandemic Flu Planner, is produced by specialist software company iQ Medical, which has already won contracts with East of England strategic health authority and several primary care trusts to supply the planning tool to […]
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Germany’s e-health smartcard scaled back
Key clinical components of Germany’s flagship national e-health smartcard programme look set to be dropped or delayed because of problems encountered in the first seven pilot sites.
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US sets out privacy principles for EHRs
The US Department of Health and Human Services has published new privacy guidelines for electronic health records (EHRs), based on providing citizens with the ability to choose how far they want to share information. The new guidelines set out eight principals, desigend to facilitate the adoption of electronic health records by providing a consistent approach […]
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GMC rejects calls for inquiry into MTAS
The General Medical Council has rejected calls for it to investigate the IT and selection procedures for Modernising Medical Careers. Doctors’ pressure group Remedy UK wrote to the GMC in October urging it to investigate centralised, computer-based application process for MMC and the role of the senior doctors responsible for it. Remedy asked the GMC […]
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