Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how Agfa is planning to tackle the UK hospital Electronic Patient Record market.
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OECD countries need ehealth to reform
The vision of eHealth records being accessible in different European Union countries and beyond is now being looked at by many different countries, according to the OECD’s Martine Durand. Speaking at the recent Berlin E-health conference she said "All OECD countries are facing challenges meeting the pressures in their healthcare systems. They are all struggling with questions […]
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IT and e-health is ‘every nurse’s business’
IT and e-health is every nurse’s business because it has to be integrated into practice, nursing leader, June Clark, said on the eve of a major discussion at the Royal College of Nursing’s annual congress this week. The discussion on the theme “Computerised records – what can they offer?” will be available online at the College […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards to reward outstanding work
Award winning healthcare IT news service, e-Health Insider and the NHS’s leading information and communication technology supplier, BT have joined forces to reward the best teamwork and individuals in their sector. The BT e-Health Insider Awards ’07 are launched today with opportunities for healthcare ICT people to gain recognition in five categories: Primary Care ICT […]
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CMO highlights e-health initiatives
A new programme using e-mail alerts, chat rooms and on-line notice boards has been developed to fight “consistently high” levels of obesity in the East Midlands. The programme is highlighted in the annual report of the chief medical officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson. He said the same issue was highlighted in last year’s report as […]
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Public awareness low on e-health services
A picture of low public awareness of electronic health services emerges from a new survey of users with NHS Direct, the 24 hour online and telephone advice service, proving to be the exception to the rule. The ntl:Telewest Digital NHS 2006 Study found that, while 72% of respondents had heard of NHS Direct, recognition rates […]
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Intel creates e-health interoperability alliance
Intel has created a major international new alliance of healthcare hardware and software providers called Continua, in order to increase compatibility of e-healthcare devices and software, EHI can exclusively reveal. All devices that follow the Continua standards will be compatible with one another and will feature a new ‘consumer recognisable logo’, in the same fashion […]
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Unstoppable momentum in e-health rollout, says Granger
Connecting for Health has reached an unstoppable momentum and "essentially the war is won", chief executive Richard Granger has told a conference in Australia. He is quoted in The Australian newspaper as saying that patients are already benefiting from the programme and that deployment was well underway. "The real revolution is in patients being able […]
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InterSystems chosen for Dutch e-health programme
InterSystems Corporation has been selected by CSC Computer Sciences BV to provide its Ensemble integration platform for a national healthcare integration project in the Netherlands. The new initiative, called the National Switching Point, will provide the foundation for the national rollout of an electronic patient record (EPR) that is being developed by the Dutch National […]
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Kodak chosen for Finnish e-health project
Eastman Kodak’s Health Group has been selected as the main supplier of Finland’s RATU e-health project, which aims to integrate the medical imaging and information systems across five Finnish hospital districts. The €2.7m RATU project focuses on the development of e-health in Northern Finland and is funded by five hospital districts and the Finnish Ministry […]
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