SNOMED CT-based sensitivity now on Multilex DDF
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe (FDBE), has announced the release of SNOMED CT-based sensitivity checking within its drug knowledge base, the Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF). The release follows on from a development last year when FDBE released functionality to support SNOMED CT and dm+d based sensitivity checking to comply with NHS […]
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New deal to deploy data mining tool
Quicksilva Software Solutions has secured a deal with life sciences specialists Applied InSilico to deploy their artificial intelligence-based data mining tool called ELE, the Evolutionary Learning Environment, globally. ELE is a data analysis tool capable of reviewing huge and complex volumes of information quickly. This enables it to uncover relationships between diseases and genes and […]
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ScriptSwitch acquired by Isis for almost £10m
Prescribing advice specialists ScriptSwitch has been acquired by Isis Equity Partners in a deal worth almost £10m. The Coventry based firm provides medicines management software to primary care trusts. ScriptSwitch’s managing director, Mike Washburn, said: “ScriptSwitch is a unique prescribing tool that has created its own market opportunity. We are well poised for growth and […]
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An independent view
Professor Tricia Greenhalgh is conducting an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record. She explains why the work is so important.
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An independent view
Professor Tricia Greenhalgh is conducting an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record. She explains why the work is so important.
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FDBE signs up with Map of Medicine and Soarian
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe has secured contracts to add its systems to the Map of Medicine and Siemens’ Soarian electronic patient record system. Siemens and FDBE have already worked together in America, and will now collaborate to integrate the decision support system into the UK version of Soarian. Siemens’ IT solutions business […]
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Microsoft’s NHS Common User Interface unveiled
Microsoft UK has revealed the first fruits of its four year £40 million collaboration with Connecting for Health to develop a Common User Interface for use with clinical applications across the NHS.
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Consumers prefer the ‘personal touch’ for online health
Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council has found that people searching for health advice online prefer websites with the ‘human touch’ to websites with high quality medical information. Researchers from Northumbria and Sheffield universities observed the strategies of people interested in finding health information and found that consumers went through an ‘initial […]
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iSoft Germany expand lab services customer base
iSoft Deutschland has announced their first laboratory system deployments in the private sector and drug research sector, plus laboratory and radiology implementations and the first tests of a new compulsory electronic health card. Last week, the company announced it had signed its first private laboratory services contract after deploying its LabCentre system at the private […]
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UN warning on rogue internet pharmacies
Unregulated internet pharmacies are posing a high risk to patients, according to the United Nation’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). In its 2006 annual report titled ‘Internationally controlled drugs and the unregulated market’ the board warns that the risks involved in buying a medicinal product through an illegal internet pharmacy are high and websites facilitating […]
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