IBM and PatientKeeper Expand Wireless Health Collaboration
IBM and PatientKeeper, Inc. have announced an expansion of wireless capabilities to help hospitals enhance patient care, reduce medical errors, and increase the job satisfaction of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. As part of their collaborative efforts, IBM will market and resell PatientKeeper’s mobile platform and portfolio of wireless, point-of-care solutions. Those solutions enable […]
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Torex Acquires Civica’s Health Division
Torex, the UK provider of healthcare information systems, has announced that it has acquired the operating theatre management and anaesthesia systems business, from Civica. The acquisition, for £1.4 million in cash, continues Torex’s expansion of its clinical systems portfolio, and is being funded by the balance of the proceeds of the Placing announced on 19 […]
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Relief Online for Mental Health Problems
Patients in a trust in north west England will soon be able to try out a new set multimedia programs to combat depression, anxiety, stress and insomnia. The 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Trust, which covers Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan & Leigh, is to trial the Ultrasis Relief Series a suite of online […]
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IT Vital to Tackle Health Staff Shortages
A major new US health IT survey suggests that new technology has significant potential to help mitigate the serious staff shortages faced by healthcare providers. The same survey also stressed the importance of re-evaluating workflow to realise the benefits from any IT implementation. Electronic medical records, point of care technologies and mobile and wireless communications […]
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Row Over Health Records Review Secrecy
Campaigners this week alleged that the Department of Health (DH) had broken undertakings to keep fees low for patient access to manual health records and had further worsened the situation by conducting a review of health records and data protection in secret. The DH issued a defence against some reports of the row, but conceded […]
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Lockheed Martin To Build Canadian Forces Health System
Lockheed Martin has won a CAN$17m (£6.8m) contract to build an advanced healthcare information system for the Canadian Forces. The Canadian Forces Health Information System (CFHIS) will ensure that health information about the forces’ personnel is collected accurately and securely and made available to authorised users wherever the service men and women are in Canada […]
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Porn-Blocking Software Impedes Access to Health Info
The most restrictive settings on pornography-blocking software shut out the highest proportion of health sites without delivering substantially higher gains in pornography restriction, researchers have found. The findings are significant because the Internet has become an important tool for finding health information, especially among adolescents. There is concern that blocking software cannot perfectly discriminate between […]
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Siemens Tops European Health IT League
The health services division of Siemens Medical Solutions has been named the leader in the European Hospital Information Systems (HIS) market by health markets analyst Frost &Sullivan. Siemens purchase of Shared Medical Systems (SMS) has catapulted it into the number one slot in the European HIS sector, where it is now estimated to have an […]
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‘Radical Steps’ Urged to Boost Health Informatics
The British Computer Society (BCS) has warned that unless urgent action is taken 40 years accumulated experience of health informatics may be swept away either by the promise of the "new" or by attrition and inertia caused by the current IT planning blight, placing the NHS IT strategy at risk. In a briefing paper, called […]
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MedicDirect Launches Sports Health Channel
Leading UK health information website www.medicdirect.co.uk which currently supplies many of the leading Internet Service ’s and broadcasters including Tiscali, NTL, GMTV and AOL with much of their health channel content, have launched a new sports health and fitness channel www.medicdirectsport.com . Medicdirectsport provides a unique sports health and fitness resource, providing users with access to […]
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