Cerner director is Obama’s health czar
US president Barack Obama has announced a former director of Cerner Corporation as director of the White House Office for Health Reform. Nancy-Ann DeParle resigned from Cerner’s eight-member board last week to run the newly created office, which will help to co-ordinate the president’s health reform agenda with Congress. She joined Cerner in May 2001. […]
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PAC gives NPfIT six months to deliver CRS
The National Programme for IT in the NHS should be given six months to get effective care record systems into acute trusts, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
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Call for common e-health standards
A new study advocates the development of a common strategy and roadmap for e-health standards development, to support interoperability and the adoption of electronic patient records. Carried out by German research firm Empirica on behalf of the European Commission, the study provides an overview of e-health standards development and uptake. Attention is given to the […]
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Gematik to evaluate USB sticks for patient records
The German national health IT body has agreed to evaluate USB sticks as a means of storing and carrying electronic patient records.
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Cerner wins contract for UAE national EPR
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health has awarded a €48 ($82m) contract to Cerner for a national electronic patient records system.
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Holland aims for electronic child records
All child healthcare providers will have to introduce electronic patient records by the end of 2009. André Rouvoet, the Dutch minister for youth and family, has said all institutions and bodies dealing with the healthcare of children must be using electronic patient files by the end of 2009. The minister set out the requirement in […]
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Malta’s Mater Dei gets bedside entertainment
Irish based patient entertainment specialist, Lincor Solutions, has implemented its bedside TV and clinical access system, MEDIVista at the Mater Dei hospital in Malta, in a deal worth over €1.6m. The new system, delivered in partnership with Melita Cable, has been implemented across all 825 beds at the Mater Dei hospital and will enable patients […]
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European PACS market to reach €650m by 2014
The European Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) market is set to grow to €650m in 2014, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan. The research says the market for PACS, although mature in some parts of the region such as northern Europe, offers promising opportunities throughout the continent. The study says there […]
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Darzi’s report for the digital generation
The final report of the Next Stage Review of the English NHS sees technology-driven change as one of the challenges facing the NHS in the 21st century.
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Study praises Norwegian EPRs
A study by researchers at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has found that GP electronic patient records in Norway has led to better availability of records, but unsatisfactory access to information. The study by academics Tom Christensen and Anders Grimsmo says that the deployment of EPRs to GPs across the country has […]
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