Google announces healthcare search clustering
Google has announced that people looking for healthcare terms on its front page will now have the option to see a list of reviewed links, and sort their results by treatment or symptoms. In Google Co-op, if users search for a particular symptom, illness or associated keyword on the main page of the site, they will […]
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European healthcare IT outsourcing set to grow
A new market report has predicted that rising healthcare costs and the rising complexity of healthcare IT systems will compel European hospitals to outsource their IT needs. The Frost & Sullivan report also says that increasing public sector support of IT modernisation initiatives across Europe are creating “significant opportunities” for healthcare IT vendors and service […]
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Bush renews call for more use of healthcare IT
Health information technology advocates are hailing another call by US President George W. Bush for greater use of IT in healthcare, but understand that technology is only a small piece of an ambitious reform plan for 2006, reports US correspondent Neil Versel. In his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, Bush linked quality, affordable […]
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GE Healthcare completes acquisition of IDX
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, has completed its acquisition of health IT specialist IDX Systems Corporation. The deal $1.2 billion (£681 million) was first announced in September last year. IDX is one of the key software providers to the English NHS National Programme for IT, in which, as a sub-contractor to BT, […]
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Database aims to improve mental healthcare of young
The First Episode of psychosis Research Network (FERN) has awarded a contract to Tribal Technology for development of a mental health database to improve the provision of mental healthcare to young people. Under the contract Tribal Technology will deliver a dedicated database solution to enable FERN to manage its data collection and analysis requirements as […]
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Singapore’s National Healthcare Group buys Soarian
Siemens Medical Solutions has signed a major deal with Singapore’s National Healthcare Group (NHG) for an enterprise-wide implementation of its next generation Soarian electronic patient record (EPR) solution. NHG, one of Sinapore’s two public healthcare provider networks, will implement the full Soarian Electronic Patient Record system over the next two years, including the Computerised Clinician […]
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Virtual healthcare research institute launched
A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in Healthcare Practice (VIRIHP). Members will work together via online discussion boards, email and telephone and video conferencing in addition to conventional face-to-face meetings twice a year. One of the institute’s objectives will be to “develop […]
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Somerset EPR “commended” by Healthcare Commission
The Healthcare Commission has praised Somerset Partnership NHS & Social Care Trust for its implementation of an electronic patient record, calling it "pioneering" but noting that some staff are having problems accessing information on the service. In its annual clinical governance review or ‘health check’ of the trust, the Healthcare Commission said that the trust’s […]
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Kodak announces new push into healthcare IT
Eastman Kodak this week announced plans for a concerted push into the fast-growing market for healthcare information technology with the introduction of a new portfolio of software and systems. The new approach was announced at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS) conference in Dallas this week. Kodak’s health imaging business serving the health […]
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Flu software helps plan healthcare resources
The US-based Centre for Disease Control, part of the Department for Health and Human Services, has released free software to allow healthcare professionals to plan and estimate demand for hospitalisation and health services during an influenza pandemic. FluAid 2.0, and the accompanying spreadsheet FluSurge 1.0, is based on recent scientific studies of the effects of […]
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