Cardiff to be Oracle Healthcare Customer Advisor
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust will be a key Customer Advisor in Oracle Corporation’s development of a web-based, patient-centred healthcare information system based on its leading e-business suite. The Oracle Healthcare integrated solution is intended to help provide improved efficiency, cost-effectiveness and quality of care to hospitals and other care delivery organisations by consolidating clinical, […]
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Eli Lilly E-mail Lapse Highlight Need for Privacy Policies
Two news items from the US over the past week have highlighted the need for rigorous privacy policies when managing electronic patient sensitive data and electronic communications with patients. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled that pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly will not have to pay a fine after it accidentally disclosed the e-mail addresses […]
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BT to Deliver the Technology for Scotland’s NHS 24
NHS 24, the Scottish version of NHS Direct, has placed a £20.5m contract with BT to provide the telephone communications systems that will underpin the new service and integrate it with electronic patient records. Under the ten-year partnership deal BT will deliver the managed network and IT services that will allow everyone in Scotland to […]
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Government Response to Kennedy Throws Spotlight on Information
A new Office of Information on Health Care Performance is to be set up as part of the government response to the Kennedy Report’s recommendations. The new office will be positioned within the Commission for Health Improvement and will publish “star” ratings to compare the performance of NHS organisations against national targets. Other key measures […]
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2002 to be Year E-Health Grows Up
As the dust of the dotcom crash clears, 2002 will be the year that the e-health gets down to business and begins to deliver with health providers and pharmaceutical firms realising the value of networked communications. In its Top 10 Healthcare Predictions for 2002, Forrester Research, offers its reading of the tea leaves for what […]
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InferMed Partners with BMJ’s Clinical Evidence
The BMJ Publishing Group has teamed up with InferMed, a leading UK provider of clinical software, to assess the feasibility of developing a system that electronically mimics the process that doctors naturally use to make clinical decisions. The two organisations say their shared objective is to develop an electronic clinical decision ‘support system’ to help […]
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£2M Investment Pledged for Cancer Information Systems
UK Health Minister Yvette Cooper has announced a new £2.3m package to invest in information systems to improve cancer monitoring and involve patients in developing cancer services in England. Some £2m will be invested in improving technology for collecting cancer data. The new money will be used to strengthen links with cancer networks and will […]
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Smart Specimen Bag Launched
A new version of the humble pathology specimen bag that can integrate test request information with the electronic patient record is being piloted at NHS hospitals around the country. Speci-Sak II, made by MailmateSPS, is a plain specimen request form with a bag attached which goes through a specially adapted laser printer. Information recorded on […]
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Health Information More Popular than Games or Chat
More young people go online to search for health information than to play games, chat or take part in other popular Internet activities associated with the age group. A new US report, "Generation Rx.com", by the Kaiser Family Foundation, found that 68% of the population aged 15-24 use online media to learn about diabetes, AIDS […]
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Gates Says NHS Must Deliver in Digital Age
It’s not every day that you get to see the richest man in the world, and the gawp factor must have accounted for a good number of the 150-odd NHS chief executives and directors that attended last week’s Microsoft-sponsored Department of Health IT conference. But the man from Redmond offered them little in way of […]
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