Danish software extracts records digitally
Denmark’s largest hospital, Odense University Hospital, has implemented OnBase, Hyland Software’s suite of enterprise content management (ECM) software applications. The solution, which integrates with the hospital’s Cosmic Electronic Health Record (EHR) System, has helped users to retrieve documents associated with a patient’s EHR 64 times faster than previous manual paper processes, the hospital says. Odense […]
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US building momentum by accrediting health IT
Accreditation of vendor applications, based on core interoperability standards, is helping to spur adoption of ICT within the United States of America healthcare system. Initial results suggest the accreditation of electronic patient record systems is leading to financial incentives for their adoption, and helping drive spread of key functionality such as order communications. Speaking at […]
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Warning on health systems’ vulnerabilities
Commercial electronic health record systems are vulnerable to exploitation given existing industry development and disclosure practices, according to a study by the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program. Founded in May, 2006, the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program (eHVRP) is a collaborative of healthcare industry organisations, technology companies and security professionals. eHVRP’s mandate is to establish approaches and […]
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CSW acquires software of Ireland’s H2HCare
CSW Group Ltd have acquired the software assets of H2HCare, an Irish health IT company, specialising in healthcare – providing web-based billing, contracting and financial management capabilities to support effective patient care for public and private healthcare organisations. H2HCare products will be incorporated into CSW’s Case Notes product suite, extending it from an Electronic Health […]
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Initiate signs agreement with SQLI Groupe
Initiate Systems, the supplier of patient data management and enterprise master patient index solutions, has announced a new strategic agreement with French healthcare identity management specialists SQLI Groupe. SQLI Groupe is one of the main suppliers in the French market who have been helping with the national and regional electronic health records (EHR) strategies. The agreement will […]
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Siemens at the crossroads
Klaus Kleinfeld who resigned as Siemens’ chief executive last week was also the mastermind behind the company’s healthcare IT development. William Payne assesses his legacy.
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Italy develops chronic disease tools
The Italian health service is aiming to make use of its IT to create an integrated tool to improve care for people with chronic conditions, a Ministry of Health official has announced. The ministry’s general director for information systems, Walter Bergamaschi told the recent World Health Congress in Barcelona that elderly people required a different mix […]
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SHA overwhelmed by public response to EHR consent
A senior member of a strategic health authority with a new interim electronic record system has told delegates at the Healthcare Computing 2006 conference that there was such an enormous public response to a mailshot detailing their rights to opt-out that they had to take on extra staff. Anne Reed, clinical data repository manager at […]
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Welsh EHR content revealed in updated plan
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has published the second version of its national case, detailing the proposed content of the electronic health record and stressing that the patient will own the data on it. The update was published last week following last September’s National Architecture Week conference, at which clinicians and IT staff met […]
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MoD to announce EHR contract next year
The MoD will award a contract to build an electronic medical record system that will be used across the whole armed services in the early part of next year, E-Health Insider has learned. Two groups headed by IBM and Logica CMG are building separate electronic medical record systems for the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme […]
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