Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it
Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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NHS not making enough use of technology
The NHS is failing to make use of everyday technology such as e-mail to deliver reponsive and convenient patient services.
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Google joins Continua e-health alliance
Google has joined Continua Health Alliance, the Intel-led international coalition working to develop standards to enable interoperable e-health products and services for the personal health market.
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GPs face limits on third party add-ons
GPs in some parts of England claim they are facing unworkable restrictions on the kind of third party IT they can use in their practices under the GP Systems of Choice PCT-practice agreement.
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Tories promise NHS information revolution
The Conservative Party has promised an “information revolution” in the NHS with a focus on health outcomes.
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60 Second Interview: Murray Bain
In his latest 60 second interview with the people who make NHS computing work, Joe Fernandez talks to Murray Bain, director of IT at NHS Direct.
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Bainbridge warns of need for telecare
Health and social care services have five years to develop the telehealth and telecare services they will need to cope with an ageing population, Dr Mike Bainbridge, NHS Connecting for Health’s clinical architect, has warned. Speaking at a fringe session at this year’s NHS Confederation conference, Dr Bainbridge said that ageing combined with an increasing […]
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Kaiser signs up for Microsoft’s HealthVault
Kaiser Permanente, the largest US nonprofit health maintenance organisation, has announced it will participate in Microsoft’s personal health record initiative linking Kaiser’s existing My Health Manager system to the HealthVault platform. The partnership, announced Monday, will begin with a pilot project open to Kaiser’s 156,000 employees, which will run until November. Assuming the pilot is […]
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E-health 2.0: health’s consumer revolution
E-Health Insider this week publishes a new research report on web 2.0 in healthcare. Lindsey Birnsteel reports.
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Google Health launched
Internet search giant Google yesterday unveiled Google Health, its online personal health record service.
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