Australia to mandate health ID number
The Australian government has said it will mandate a new national e-health number for all citizens.
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CQC raises discharge concerns
Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according to the Care Quality Commission’s report on the state of care in England.
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Tories to publish government contracts
David Cameron has announced that the Conservative Party would publish details of all government contracts for goods and services worth over £25,000, if it is elected. The Tory party leader made the announcement at the Technology Entertainment Design conference in California, via video link, where he told an audience that he would create a new […]
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Bulgarian military deploys smart cards
Bulgaria has begun deploying smart cards to provide secure access to the electronic health records of military personnel and their family.
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Health 2.0 comes to Europe
The first European Health 2.0 conference, on how web 2.0 and social media are transforming healthcare systems in Europe, will be held in Paris this spring.
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Kent and Medway virtualises desktops
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has chosen a thin client strategy to cope with increasing demands on its network, which serves 4,000 staff and 3,000 computers across 100 sites. The mental health trust asked IT consultancy Centralis to design and build a proof of concept based on Citrix’s XenApp and Appsense […]
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IBM to acquire Initiate Systems
IBM has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Initiate Systems for an undisclosed sum. Initiate is best known for providing applications that manage patient information in pharmacies and hospitals, including tools to make sure that systems share a consistent view of information and to manage and share records between healthcare facilities. In the […]
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Telehealth put on the (Google) map
More than a third of primary care trusts are involved with telehealth programmes, according to the Department of Health‘s Telecare Local Integrated Network. The telecare LIN has created a Google map for PCT telehealth, which shows which areas have begun some form of remote monitoring programme. The network says more than a third of PCTs are […]
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Cyber patients cause GPs anxiety
GPs feel anxious when patients bring information from the internet to a consultation, but are developing strategies to overcome their anxiety, according to a new study. Research to be published in the February issue of the British Journal of General Practice found GPs “experienced considerable anxiety” when patients brought online information into consultations. It found […]
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Bulgaria rapped on social care spectrum
The European Commission has started legal action against Bulgaria after the country failed to follow EU rules to make the correct frequency band available for social applications and electronic services.
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