Mobiles help teen cancer patients stay in touch
Mobile computing technology could help adolescents coping with cancer keep in touch with their social world and reduce isolation, according to German researchers. Jan Marco Leimeister, Uta Knebel, and Helmut Krcmar from the Technische Universität, Munich, describe in the International Journal of Web Based Communities, their exploration of how mobile information technology could be used […]
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Informing Healthcare announce next Wales OOH sites
Patients in north-west Wales and south-west Wales will be the next to benefit from improved information sharing between GP practices and the local out-of-hours service.
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Verbal agreement on IM&T DES payments
GP representatives say they have verbal agreement that GP practices can still be paid for IM&T DES work after the scheme ends next March. The two-year DES ends on 31 March 2008 and in theory GPs who have not completed the work by that date would not be able to claim payment. However the BMA’s […]
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CfH to spend a further £6.4bn by 2011
Connecting for Health will spend a further £6.4bn over the next four years to 2011, according to figures given by health minister Ben Bradshaw.
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iSoft’s medication viewer accredited
iSoft Netherlands has received accreditation from the National Institute for ICT in Healthcare to begin implementation of its Transmural Medication Viewer (TMV) in hospital pharmacies across the country. The company is part of the Netherlands’ national e-health programme, known locally as the NICITIZ. Before deployment can begin, all software must pass the qualification process, ensuring […]
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Children’s database delayed to review security
The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full security review can take place, following last week’s HM Revenue and Customs child benefit data loss scandal. The new system, originally due to go live in spring 2008, has been postponed and is now due […]
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German hospitals to exchange patient data
Staff at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany, and neighbouring hospitals will soon routinely exchange comprehensive patient data across sites using a new connectivity solution. InterComponentWare AG (ICW) will provide Heidelberg and linked hospitals with its new hospital connectivity solution Professional Exchange Server (PXS). The PXS will be used for the first time in five hospitals, two […]
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Ehealth one of UK’s major future technologies
The government’s Council for Science and Technology (CST) has named e-health as one of the most promising technologies for the UK to focus on over the next five years, but says concerns over security and deployment timescales must be overcome. The CST says that the potential to deliver and enhance health services through the internet […]
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New CEO of SNOMED CT appointed
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), owners of the SNOMED CT terminology, has announced that Jennifer Zelmer will take over as chief executive officer (CEO) as of February 2008. Daniel Forslund, board member from Sweden and chair of the selection committee of the management board, said that the committee unanimously selected Zelmer based […]
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CompuGroup generates new business from Medica
CompuGroup has announced that it successfully signed up over 300 new customers during the Medica 2007 healthcare fair in Düsseldorf, whilst many existing customers took the opportunity to collect information on new versions of their information systems for doctors or extensions for it. The company says its success at Medica is based on numerous novel […]
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