UK E-Health Association Conference
Highlights from the UK e-Health Association Conference, Cardiff, June 11-13 E-Health Media listened in on some of the presentations at the UK e-Health Association’s well-attended conference last week. Building Clinical Value Through Data Linkage An example of building real value for diabetes patients and clinicians through data linkage came from Dr John Parkinson, client services […]
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Australia Funds Research into Open Source EHR
The Australian Government has taken another step towards its plan to introduce a ‘lifetime’ electronic health record system following the award of a research and development contract to use open-source technology to make patient health records available on the internet. The R&D contract was awarded to the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC), and partners, Ocean […]
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DH Preparing £5 Billion IT Strategy
This week E-Health Insider provides an advance preview of the yet to be released, yet to be approved, draft implementation strategy, "Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS". Two months ago Sir John Pattison announced at Harrogate that a new national strategy for NHS IT, based on common standards, new investment and a new […]
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West Berkshire PCTs and Torex Work on Multidisciplinary Record
Clinical teams in West Berkshire are to work with Torex Health to develop a next-generation community and primary care system which will offer online, integrated, multi-disciplinary records highlighting all aspects of a patient’s clinical care. It was announced this week that Torex had been awarded “preferred bidder” status for the final contact which is expected […]
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MEDLINEplus Awarded URAC Quality Seal
Medlineplus, the online health information database service of the US National Library of Medicine (NLC), has been awarded health web site accreditation by the quality body URAC. The NLC-run website is part of the US National Institute of Health, and is the first government-run website to receive the URAC seal. It is the sixteenth health […]
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Reader’s Feedback – Summary No 1
Though we always say we welcome feedback, E-health Insider has, so far, not published comments from subscribers. Let’s start to put that right this week with some recent comments. Inevitably the Budget and the Wanless Review report published just before it provoked interest. A LIS programme manager e-mailed us in sheer frustration… “Having listened to […]
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CareZone Receives DoH Funding
The UK Department of Health has announced a £1 million investment in CareZone, an online initiative to provide range of secure online services for children in public care. CareZone will offer a package of child-centred Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services developed by The Who Cares? Trust, a national charity working to improve the lives […]
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European Mobile Health Takes First Steps
Mobile health aims to do nothing less than turn traditional healthcare on its head. As numerous speakers at Mobile Health Europe pointed out, to describe care provided away from a doctor’s office or hospital clinic as "remote care" misses the point entirely if you’re a patient. The promise of mobile healthcare is to enable care […]
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PCTs Told to Freeze IT Procurement Plans
Primary Care Trusts have been told to put their plans for integrated primary and community electronic patient records on hold while new national plans for IM&T strategy are drawn up. A new wave of Primary Care Trusts and strategic health authorities was created on 1 April, when health authorities were abolished replaced by 302 Primary […]
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RCN Signs $6.5m Contract with Axia
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Axia NetMedia Corporation of Canada announced a $6.5m deal this week to create an online professional development application for the college’s 340,000 members. The project will run over seven years and cover both the development and maintenance of the application. RCN Learning Zone is the title chosen for […]
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