NHS e-health research should focus on patients
Researchers into e-health should be concentrating on long-term change and projects from the patients’ point of view, rather than studying the subject as a short-term phenomenon, according to the results of a wide-ranging survey across NHS stakeholders. Among the research topics suggested were what kind of services patients would consider most useful for electronic ordering […]
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Universities and WHO aiming for e-health for poor
The World Health Organisation is to start work with 17 universities across the world to bring e-health to developing countries, it has been announced. Universitas 21 (U21), a group of universities that include Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Nottingham as well as institutions in Sweden, Australia, Canada and South Korea, has set up a working party with […]
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Australian e-health framework calls for open standards
Australia’s agency responsible for delivering e-health throughout the country, the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), has just published guidelines for interoperability that it hopes will encourage the healthcare community to work together in implementing an electronic health record. The document, ‘Towards and Interoperability Framework’, emphasises data as key to the framework, rather than technology, […]
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EU conference in Norway spotlights e-health partnership
European commissioners have called for greater partnerships between both the public and the private sector and between different countries to advance the cause of computerising healthcare across Europe. The third European ministerial conference on e-health, held this week in Tromso, Norway, focused on best practice and examples of how e-health can improve patient care, and […]
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Shortlist shows cream of UK e-health innovation
With just under two weeks to go before the presentation of the E-Health Innovation Awards 2005 the details of shortlisted entrants are now available and listed below. Of course the category winners will not be known until the big night on 21 April when GP and broadcaster, Dr Phil Hammond, will compere the awards ceremony […]
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Shortlist announced for E-Health Innovation Awards
After an intense round of presentations and judging, the shortlist for the E-Health Innovation Awards 2005 has been agreed. Winners have been chosen among the finalists listed below, but their names will not be revealed until the Awards ceremony and dinner on 21 April 2005. Compered by GP, writer and broadcaster, Dr Phil Hammond, the […]
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New EU e-health funding will focus on integration
A new call for proposals for the European Union’s e-health programme is due to be launched next week. Around €75m are available in total for successful projects submitted in this fourth round of awards. Researchers and company representatives gathered at a workshop in London had a preview of the theme for the new round from […]
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Children’s e-health strategy focuses on shared records
An information strategy published as part of the new Children’s and Maternity Services National Service Framework focuses on how health information about children held on the NHS Care Records Service could be shared with social care and education bodies, and what role the National Programme for IT, NHS trusts and local service providers have to play. The […]
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Partnership may make e-health widely available in US
Allscripts, whose strategic partners include HP and Microsoft, has just announced a new link with US-based clinical directory Medem which it hopes will help the rollout of e-health services such as e-prescribing nationwide. Medem, which was founded in 1999, provides secure online communications and integrated web-services to patients and family physicians, and is available online in […]
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