FDA Issues 11
The Food and Drug Administration has issued 11 "cyber-letters" to Internet vendors selling unapproved Ciproflaxin to US consumers. "Cyber Letters" are issued by the FDA to warn Website operators that they may be engaged in illegal activities and informs them of the laws that govern prescription drug sales. The FDA says it has taken the […]
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Siemens and Microsoft Form .Net Alliance
Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services (SMS) has entered into a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp., under which the two companies will collaborate to optimise Siemens health information applications on the Microsoft .NET Enterprise technology platform. Siemens and Microsoft will also work together building best practices for hosting applications in an Application Service Provider (ASP) model. […]
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“Millstone of History” Holds Back UK E-Health
The UK health service is still struggling to adopt the information technology and business practices that will drag it out of the industrial era of hospital factories and into the information age model of virtual, patient-centric healthcare. But why is the health service apparently unable to get to grips with proven technologies that became commonplace […]
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Healthcare at Home Chooses Ascent Relationship Management
UK high-tech homecare provider, Healthcare at Home Ltd, has chosen Ascent relationship management (RM), supplied by Ascent Technology, to provide it with an integrated customer relationship management system. Ascent will be used to provide an enterprise-wide patient relationship management system which will truly put the patient at the heart of Healthcare at Home’s business. The […]
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NHS Hits Practice E-mail Connectivity Target
The NHSIA has released the latest figures on levels of connection to NHSnet indicating that the national target to ensure 95% of GP practices have e-mail systems in place by March 2001 has already been achieved. According to new NHSIA figures by 24 October 2001 some 8495 (97%) of GP practices had an NHSnet line […]
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GSK Signs With eSubstance
GlaxoSmithKline has signed up with eSubstance, a London-based content solutions provider, to reorganise the company’s content and unlock the value of the intellectual capital in its UK pharmaceutical division. eSubstance says that the solution it implements will ultimately provide GSK’s UK medical professionals, executives and customers to make the most efficient use of a wide […]
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e-Detailing Moves into Mainstream
Faced with spiralling marketing costs, reduced product lifecycles, and an increasing reliance on "blockbuster" drug launches, pharmaceutical companies are turning to Internet technologies to help them more effectively market and sell their products and develop new channels to an increasingly complex customer base. The challenge faced by pharmaceutical executives attending eyeforpharma’s e-sales and marketing in […]
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Biggest Benefits Yet to Come for e-Pharma
Conservatism has served the pharmaceutical industry well in the early stages of the Internet revolution, but it now needs to furiously innovate and even sometimes "fail" to harness the potential of new technology. While many other industries were swept along by the hype and early promise of e-commerce the pharmaceutical industry largely took a more […]
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What Can the Archers Teach e-Pharma?
The familiar “dum-de-dum” theme tune of The Archers’ radio soap was an unexpected item on the programme of the Pharmaceutical Marketing Society’s autumn conference as members explored the elements of a successful community web site. The Archers Addicts was used as an example of a successful community site by one of its creators, Keith Pollard […]
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Web-based Clinical Information System Goes Live at Birmingham
Birmingham City Hospital NHS Trust has become the first trust in England to deploy a fully web-based, end-to-end, enterprise-wide clinical system to every desktop in the hospital. The new web-based clinical information system, developed by health IT supplier iSoft builds on early in-house development work carried out by the trust, and is based on the […]
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