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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Quicksilva releases data spine access software
Public sector integration software specialists Quicksilva Software Solutions have released Spinal Tap, a package designed to allow accredited healthcare organisations access to the central electronic health record system, the data spine, independent of the software they use. The system, which is aimed at pharmacists, dentists and opticians as well as NHS trusts, will act as an […]
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OpenEHR Foundation launches international standard
An open-source community founded in University College London has produced the first blueprint of an international electronic record standard that they hope will be used as a standard by software developers. The OpenEHR foundation, a not-for-profit company founded in 2003 by staff at University College London and Australian company Ocean Informatics, released the blueprint earlier […]
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Newcastle opts for ChemoCare
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust has signed up for a chemotherapy prescribing solution which will operate across three sites and provide the foundations, if required, for deployment across the entire Northern Cancer Network. CliniSys Solutions has won the contract with its ChemoCare chemotherapy prescribing solution – a multi pharmacy application for adults, haematology and paediatrics. Dr […]
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Looking abroad
Sinead Quinn, healthcare programme manager at Intellect outlines some international opportunities for UK healthcare businesses in English-speaking countries.
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Australian e-health framework calls for open standards
Australia’s agency responsible for delivering e-health throughout the country, the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), has just published guidelines for interoperability that it hopes will encourage the healthcare community to work together in implementing an electronic health record. The document, ‘Towards and Interoperability Framework’, emphasises data as key to the framework, rather than technology, […]
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Wirral’s gateway to care
Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical IT systems.
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HL7 explained
In his second article for EHI, Tim Benson from training company Abies explains HL7 V3, the national language of NHS Connecting for Health
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Barts and The London chooses Ensemble for integration
Barts and The London NHS Trust has selected InterSystems’ Ensemble universal integration platform to integrate systems at its three hospitals in East London and the City. Ensemble will be used on a range of projects at the three prestigious London hospitals – The Royal London Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and The London Chest Hospital – […]
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GP-to-GP transfer pilot project begins
The National Programme for IT has begun pilots of GP-to-GP record transfer between practices running EMIS and InPractice Systems, using dummy records, in three areas of the country. GP-to-GP record transfer, when fully operational, will for the first time enable patient records to be seamlessly electronically transferred from one practice to another when a patient […]
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