Major Study of Healthcare IT Benefits Announced
A leading US policy think tank is to conduct a study to determine how much patient care could improve and how much money could be saved if healthcare professionals increased their use of information technology. The RAND Health study will focus on electronic records systems, clinical information sharing and clinical decision support tools. Richard Hillestad, […]
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Capio Healthcare Strikes Deal with Cerner
Swedish-based Capio Healthcare, which runs private hospitals and diagnostic services in eight European countries has chosen Cerner Corporation as its strategic IT partner for a hospital automation project in the UK. The first phase of the project will implement a foundation for electronic medical records and patient access systems across Capio’s 22 hospitals, which are […]
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iSeeTV Brings Healthcare to Students
A broadband healthcare service which offers students a live consultation with a nurse outside clinic hours will be launched at the end of March at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. The new service will enable the university’s 4000 resident students to access healthcare expertise seven days a week through their dormitory room PCs using iSeeTV […]
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Conservatives Detect Panic on Healthcare IT
A Conservative health spokesperson has told E-Health Insider that he is worried the NHS National Programme for IT is too big, has resulted in local progress grinding to a halt, and threatens to squeeze out local priorities. He calls for the programme to be broken down into more manageable pieces that better reflect local service […]
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US Healthcare Slow to Adopt IT
“The most dangerous instrument in medicine is the fountain pen,” according to group president of McKesson, Duncan James, interviewed in a BusinessWeek round up of US healthcare technology. The influential magazine and its online service concludes – as many have before – that healthcare has been very slow to adopt information technology that could improve […]
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iSOFT Acquires Northgate Healthcare Business
Fast growing UK Health IT firm iSOFT has announced that it has agreed to buy rival Northgate Healthcare Business from Northgate for £33 million in cash. The Northgate Healthcare Business is a leading UK vendor of electronic patient record information systems to the acute sector of the NHS. According to iSOFT the acquisition will make […]
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Global Healthcare Exchange Goes Live at Leeds
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), the health e-commerce platform established by an alliance of leading international medical device firms, has announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first European hospital to be integrated into its e-commerce system. Medical industry-backed GHX focuses on deeply integrating into the purchasing systems of hospitals and suppliers to cut […]
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US Healthcare IT Market Weathers Downturn
Despite the chill wind blowing through the technology market, the US health IT market proved resilient in 2001, largely avoiding the across the board declines seen in many other technology sectors. According to new data from analysts Frost & Sullivan the US technology market generated a total of $6 billion in revenues from IT services, […]
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Cardiff to be Oracle Healthcare Customer Advisor
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust will be a key Customer Advisor in Oracle Corporation’s development of a web-based, patient-centred healthcare information system based on its leading e-business suite. The Oracle Healthcare integrated solution is intended to help provide improved efficiency, cost-effectiveness and quality of care to hospitals and other care delivery organisations by consolidating clinical, […]
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Companion Healthcare and Eli Lilly launch Web-based Diabetes Programme
Companion Healthcare, a managed care subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, has developed an online Diabetes Education Centre for its members in partnership with pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly. The Diabetes Education Centre http://www.diabeteseducationcenter.com/, created by Eli Lilly, is fully interactive and claimed to provide a simple, convenient way for Companion Healthcare members […]
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