Dutch EHR plans put on hold
Dutch plans for a national electronic health record system have been put on hold while key assumptions come under scrutiny. Ton Smit reports.
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CSC partners with Savience kiosks
CSC has announced a partnership with healthcare kiosk specialist, Savience, to deliver self-service kiosks to NHS trusts. The kiosks enable patients to check-in automatically for an appointment and to make sure their information is as up to date as possible. Existing deployments have shown that self-service kiosks eliminate queues, free up reception staff time and help clinical staff to […]
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Finnish Tieto acquires Intensium
Finnish health IT company, Tieto, has acquired the business operations of Intensium, including its benchmarking solution for healthcare providers and its management of healthcare workflow system. Intensium, which provides benchmarking services for healthcare service providers in Finland as a software as a service, allows providers to monitor the care process performance by assessing where there […]
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Microsoft launches HealthVault in UK
Microsoft has launched its personal health record platform in the UK on the Health and Lifestyle channel of the MSN network.
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Further iSoft jobs at risk
Health software firm iSoft has announced that it will push through a “significant reduction in costs”, likely to result in further job losses at the company.
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Australia to get optional EPR
The Australian Government has announced plans to spend €331m (£275m) over the next two years to provide an electronic patient record for every citizen. The plans, outlined in the government’s 2010-11 budget papers, show that each patient that opts into the plans will have a summary of their health information held electronically. The summary will include clinical […]
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HIMSS announces EU leadership summit
The Health Information Management and Systems Society Europe has announced a new European leadership summit that will take place in Rome, Italy, this autumn. The summit will provide an executive level forum that HIMSS hopes will attract more than 100 chief executive and chief information officers from health organisations across Europe. The event from 29 […]
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HealthCom’10 to take place in France
The twelth International Conference on e-Health networking, application and services, HealthCom ’10, will be held in Lyon, France at the beginning of July. The conference aims to bring together clinicians, hospital administrators, IT professionals, researchers, healthcare system suppliers and consultants from across the world to collaborate, discuss health IT solutions and exchange ideas. The conference, […]
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Telehealth aids heart failure patients
A European study has shown that patients with heart failure who used an interactive telehealth system with motivational support tools at home spent 73% fewer days in hospital.
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Scottish tech for rural road accidents
Researchers in Aberdeen, Scotland, have been awarded an £11.8m grant from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council to develop a device that provides medical advice for the first person to arrive at the scene of a car crash.
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