EHRs deliver soft benefits for hard cash
Electronic health record and e-prescribing systems deliver benefits such as safer and more convenient services, but only over long periods of time and with a net increase in spending, a major European study has concluded.
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EuroRec 2009 programme published
The programme for the EuroRec conference 2009 has been published, the event will be held on 1 September in Sarajevo. The conference is part of the wider Medical Informatics Europe Conference 2009 (MIE2009) which takes place over three days from the 30 August to 2 September 2009. The EuroRec Institute is an independent organisation that […]
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Siemens wins South African Soarian deal
Siemens Healthcare has won an €18m deal to provide 37 hospitals and 300 clinics in South Africa with its Soarian MedSuite healthcare IT software.
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Permanente way
Kaiser Permanente is making rapid progress with electronic health records. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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CompuGroup reports Q1 figures
German e-health firm CompuGroup AG has reported its revenues grew by 36% in the first three months of 2009. Profits decreased however from €12.8m in 2008 to €11.9m. The company attributed the difference to “acquisition related restructuring processes and regulatory implications”. The firm reported that business opportunities remained good and that it had begun delivering […]
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IB-Salut awards EHR contract
The health service of the Balearic Islands has awarded the tender for the development of an electronic health record to Fujistu, in conjunction with its partners Oracle and Orion Health. IB-Salut signed the contract worth €6.7m, saying it wanted to transform its existing model of dispersed health information into an integrated EHR. The project known […]
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HIMSS singing
With former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on its speaker rota, this year’s HIMSS conference was always going to be about money. Neil Versel reports from Chicago.
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Hong Kong plans e-health records
Hong Kong’s Food and Health Bureau has set out healthcare reform plans that include proposals to develop a Hong Kong-wide electronic patient record-sharing system. The shared electronic health record system would enable different public and private healthcare providers to enter, transfer and access patient data. The system would include mechanisms for obtaining patients’ consent, and […]
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DSS joins Open Health Tools Foundation
DSS Inc., a leading US VistA developer has joined the Open Health Tools Foundation and announced it will open source the code for its vxVistA electronic health record (EHR) framework. DSS says that with the move it has effectively removed the greatest obstacle to collaboration in the VistA community by providing their enhanced version of […]
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Electronic records before man on Mars
Electronic records before man on Mars Ilias Iakovodis, the deputy head of European Commission’s e-health unit, says that a long-term sustained effort over the next two decades is needed to ensure that all citizens get the benefits of electronic health records and other e-health services. In an exclusive extended interview with E-Health Europe, Ilias Iakovidis […]
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