Crashed cars to text for help
Researchers funded by the European Commission are to begin tests this month of a system called E-merge that automatically senses when a car has crashed and then sends a text message telling emergency services that the accident has taken place. The E-merge system consists of a cellphone-sized device fitted in the car. Attached to the underside […]
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Final call for entries to 2004 EU e-health awards
The closing date for entries to European Union’s eEurope Awards for eHealth comes later this month, with the deadline falling on 21 January. Winners of the eEurope Awards for eHealth will be announced at May’s High-Level European eHealth Conference and Exhibition, in Cork. The goal of the awards is to help demonstrate where Europe currently […]
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Newchurch starts Tees diabetes ICRS project
Information solutions and consulting specialist, Newchurch Limited, has started work on the Tees Diabetes Integrated Record Service Pilot (ICRS) for County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic Health Authority. The pilot project, funded by the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, started last week and will continued until April 2004. The system developed will be used to […]
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US healthcare IT looks kinda familiar
In a second article on healthcare IT systems in America, Andrew Harrison reports from the 650-bed Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, a teaching hospital affiliated with New York University, where he finds that pizza plays an important role in clinical engagement… We tend to think of the US as being more advanced in […]
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ID cards on the way for healthcare entitlement
The government published plans published this week making clear that it wants to introduce identity cards which will be used eventually to establish entitlement to free healthcare and deter so-called health tourists. The Home Office plan, Identity Cards: the next steps, foresees the introduction of the health entitlement element of the scheme in the second phase […]
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Wirral Health Informatics Service extends EHR capabilities
The Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS) has extended the capability of its pilot electronic health record (EHR) system by installing a forms creation toolkit from i-Health. According to New Zealand-based health IT vendor i-Health, the new toolkit will enable WHIS to provide a Wirral-wide solution for referrals, orders and messaging, for all its "customers" in […]
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Torex Acquires Australian Supplier of Clinical Trauma Systems
Torex PLC has announced that it is to acquire Australian specialist health IT supplier HAS Solutions Pty Ltd. (HASS), a supplier of operating theatre and clinical trauma systems, for (AU) $28 million. The deal follows the acquisition in August of the operating theatre management and anaesthesia systems business from Civica Plc. Torex itself is currently involved […]
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IT Key to Future Development of Disease Management
A key role for IT in the integration of patient care is predicted by market analysts, Frost and Sullivan, in a report which is highly critical of companies’ failure to look beyond single product offerings such as drugs or devices. The report sees the US trend towards “disease management services” as the way ahead with […]
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City Selects Doc@Home for Remote Monitoring Trial
City University, London, is to evaluate Doc@Home, a remote online clinical data gathering and healthcare management service provided by Docobo (UK), as part of a European Union (EU)-funded trial of remote clinical monitoring for 300 patients with chronic conditions at four different sites in England, Portugal and Estonia. The work forms part of a project […]
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Open Source: ‘Rescue Community Nurses from IT Exile’
In the second of our new ‘Open Source’ columns Mark Reynolds, managing director of TopCall UK argues for community nurses to be urgently provided with modern IT tools to end their ‘communications exile’. According to research by Intel, Hewlett Packard and Sendmail, the mobile nursing community is one of the most ostracised of all British […]
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