Germany’s team
The World Cup is not Frankfurt’s only major event this summer. Phillipp Grätzel reports from ITeG, the German healthcare IT industry conference.
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Intel creates e-health interoperability alliance
Intel has created a major international new alliance of healthcare hardware and software providers called Continua, in order to increase compatibility of e-healthcare devices and software, EHI can exclusively reveal. All devices that follow the Continua standards will be compatible with one another and will feature a new ‘consumer recognisable logo’, in the same fashion […]
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Virgin to upgrade telemedicine across fleet
Virgin Atlantic is to install telemedicine equipment on board all of its aircraft after signing a deal with British hardware company Remote Diagnostic Technologies. The system, which is designed for small spaces, will use the plane’s satellite telephone to communicate with medical professionals on the ground. The Tempus system (below), which is designed to be […]
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Care records now running 2.5 years late
Health minister Lord Warner has said that plans to introduce an integrated electronic medical record for every NHS patient in England are now running at least two-and-a-half years behind schedule. The health minister said that the plans for the national summary electronic record, the foundation for later national integrated electronic medical records, first due in […]
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Heart of England procures independently on PACS
Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust in Birmingham has gone outside the nationally negotiated NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) contract to tender for a full digital imaging solution comprising picture archive and communications system (PACS). Earlier this month the trust has placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for PACS, […]
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iSoft’s Lorenzo hits new highs in benchmarks
Manchester based health software firm iSoft has announced that its Lorenzo healthcare solution has hit new benchmark highs in handling simultaneous transactions and concurrent users. In the benchmark tests, carried out with HP, Microsoft and Intel, Lorenzo was said to have handled six million ‘real’ transactions an hour for 25,000 concurrent users. The benchmark was […]
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Choice? What choice?
Over a year since the announcement of GP system choice, many practices still only have one package to choose from. Fiona Barr investigates.
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ComMedica closes diagnostic imaging business
ComMedica Limited, the UK-based developer of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) has announced that it is closing its diagnostic imaging software business. The company has announced a "significant restructuring", including the closure of its diagnostic imaging software business, resulting in over 100 redundancies at its Woking office and elsewhere. ComMedica said the move followed […]
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Cyber carers
Colin Jervis investigates whether robot medics will ever evolve to the same level as their flesh-and-blood counterparts, in his second article of the series.
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Staff workflow key to health IT success, says study
Healthcare IT implementations could risk failure if care is not taken of how users react to the tasks they are given, rather than technology itself, a study undertaken by the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology in Austria is suggesting. Existing project management frameworks tend only to focus on whether users can operate […]
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