US-wide EHRs priced at $150 billion
The full implementation of a digital US healthcare system, with integrated networked electronic health records (EHR) in all US doctors’ offices and hospitals, has been estimated as costing around €97 billion ($150 billion) over eight years. The figure was suggested by Robert Miller, a professor of health economics at the University of California, San Francisco, […]
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Carestream rolls out French ‘pay-as-you-go’ PACS
Carestream Health, formerly Kodak Health, has announced that 37 privately owned French medical facilities are now using its Hosted Information Management (HIM) system, a pay-as-you-go system for remote archiving, storage and image sharing. HIM is one of a number of eHealth Managed Services from Carestream Health designed to archive, share and distribute medical data more […]
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Geneva boosts telemedicine in Francophone Africa
The decentralised nature of the Swiss confederation has given cantonal governments wide autonomy to spend their money, and Geneva authorities are now using their authority to boost telemedicine in a growing number of African nations. Since 2001, RAFT, which stands for Réseau en Afrique francophone pour la telemedicine (Telemedicine Network in French-speaking Africa), has established […]
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Malta’s Mater Dei gets bedside entertainment
Irish based patient entertainment specialist, Lincor Solutions, has implemented its bedside TV and clinical access system, MEDIVista at the Mater Dei hospital in Malta, in a deal worth over €1.6m. The new system, delivered in partnership with Melita Cable, has been implemented across all 825 beds at the Mater Dei hospital and will enable patients […]
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Telford PCT introduces digital dictation
Community doctors at Telford and Wrekin PCT have signed a deal to use digital dictation technology from TalkingPoint to record their diagnoses whilst on the move. The PCT is to offer a new mobile service to 15 of its community-based doctors within the community paediatric service. As a result of the new service staff will […]
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New mammography module allows double-checks
A new mammography module for the Kodak Carestream Radiology Information System has helped to improve mammography screening administration in three of Denmark’s five regions by ensuring images are double-checked. The new mammography module, introduced earlier this year, is now used by 60% of Denmark’s mammography screening service. The new system means that the Danish screening […]
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‘IT has generated substantial savings for us’
Philipp Grätzel speaks to Uwe Pöttgen, head of corporate department IT at Asklepios, about the ‘Asklepios Future Hospital Programme’.
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Intel gets approval for telecare device
Intel has received market clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a new personal telehealth system.
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Darzi’s report for the digital generation
The final report of the Next Stage Review of the English NHS sees technology-driven change as one of the challenges facing the NHS in the 21st century.
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We live in digital times
Nick Timmins, public policy editor of the Financial Times, argues that the NHS has to succeed in digitisatising if it is to last another 60 years.
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