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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EC looks to IT to help support older people
The European Commission has unveiled plans for a new €1bn European Action Plan to research the effectiveness of the use of ICT in improving the life of older people at home, in the workplace and in society in general. “Ageing Well in the Information Society” is a new research project, aimed at ensuring that by […]
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RoboBraille translation piloted across Europe
RoboBraille, a Danish Braille and speech translation service, funded by the European Commission, has begun its EU market validation tests in six different countries. The RoboBraille project offers a tool that automates the translation of text into Braille and speech. Users submit documents as attachments to e-mails. In return, they receive contracted Braille documents or […]
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EC announces large scale eHealth pilot
The European Commission has begun its tendering process for a large scale pilot of an EU wide implementation of eHealth services to support continuity of care. Speaking at the EC’s ICT Policy Support Programme – Work Programme 2007 launch day in Brussels on 24 May, Dr Gérard Comyn, head of the EC’s ICT for Health […]
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EC looks to mainstream telehealth
Members of the European Commission have said that they intend to set up an action plan to deal with the challenges of an ageing population and make telehealth more mainstream. Speaking at the London Telehealth Symposium earlier this year, three EC civil servants told the audience that the eHealth industry, had been allocated funds by […]
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Debate over legality of Care Record Guarantee
British data protection laws used to create the Care Record Guarantee could fall foul of new European Commission data protection laws, adopted in February according to an international law expert. However, the view expressed to the parliamentary select committee on health by Douwe Korff, professor of international law at London Metropolitan University, was vigorously opposed […]
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North Mersey use MSoft for blood tracking
North Mersey Health Informatics Service has chosen the MSoft blood tracking solution to help them meet compliance with European Commission directives for blood audits. Using the MSoft tracking system, blood samples are taken and stored in 17 transfusion fridges across five trusts – the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Aintree University Hospitals […]
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Newcastle looks outside CfH for maternity
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for a new maternity system and key elements of a new electronic health record system, outside the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The trust is making the move to mitigate risks created by delays to the Connecting for Health programme growing beyond the current two […]
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Innovation loss a cost in large contracts
The head of GE Healthcare Health Information Management in Europe has said that the decision to award contracts for England’s NHS National Programme for IT to just a handful of clinical software providers will prove to be at the expense of competition and innovation. Speaking on an industry panel at last week’s European Commission eHealth […]
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BCS announces speaker line-up for HC2006
The British Computer Society has announced details of its speaker line-up for this year’s HC2006 health informatics conference at Harrogate, Yorkshire, 20-22 March. The focus this year will be on how health informatics is making a difference to the health service. Keynote speakers at the three day conference include Richard Granger, director general of NHS […]
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