Granger promises summary care record pilots by Easter
Connecting for Health’s chief executive, Richard Granger, has revealed that the first pilots of the national summary care record project should be ready to begin by Easter. Speaking at the London Telehealth Symposium yesterday, Granger said that the delayed project summary record will be ready to begin rollout to initial pilot trusts by Easter. Dr […]
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Bridgeforward and Quicksilva partner on integration
Software providers BridgeForward and Quicksilva have announced a partnership to focus on integrated connectivity solutions for healthcare. BridgeForward Software, a specialist in application integration and data migration software in healthcare will partner with Quicksilva Software Solutions, which supplies spine connectivity solutions and services to the healthcare industry, will partner on integration solutions. Under the partnership, each […]
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Great Ormond Street gets single sign on
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is set to use a single sign on system that will not only cut the number of passwords clinicians need to access patient information, but also give them a converged view of data from different applications. The system will be deployed initially at the hospital to enable access to a […]
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Quicksilva releases spine compliance software
Quicksilva Software Solutions has released an application that mimics the messages generated by Connecting for Health’s data spine so that developers have a better chance of judging compliance before they go into official testing. While Spine-in-a-Box is not intended to replace the ‘sandpit’ – the testing procedure made mandatory by Connecting for Health for all […]
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HL7 conference calls for wider interoperability
Standards drive innovation, catalyse industry growth and create opportunities for many companies in the industry, the HL7 UK conference heard this week. Norbert Mikula, director of electronic health record technology for Intel’s digital health argued that “once industries are on one format, growth can happen.” He cited case the of Centrino mobile technology where Intel […]
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Getting the message
Tim Benson of HL7 UK explains how clinical document architecture, a ‘human readable’ version of the healthcare language, will operate.
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UK telehealth firm gains EU recognition
The Health-eLife project, which uses doc@HOME technology from UK-based telehealth services firm Docobo, has been awarded ‘project of the month’ status by the EU. The project has been supported by the EU eTen initiative, designed to promote the deployment of network-based services across Europe. Each month the EU looks at different projects connected to the eTen […]
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Tolven release open source systems for testing
American software developers, the Tolven Institute, have launched a new website to release new open source software to its members. Open source software is an initiative being piloted across the world where programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code of software, allowing it to evolve. TI has launched three new products, licensed by […]
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PHCSG update
Ewan Davis looks at the issues that next month’s BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group annual conference will be covering.
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IBM donates code to open source health project
IBM has donated code to the Eclipse.org foundation’s Open Healthcare Framework (OHF), which works on increasing interoperability of healthcare software so that software vendors to easily develop applications that exchange data reliably and securely. The OHF aims to deliver an open source data sharing platform based on standards such as HL7 and Integrating the Healthcare […]
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