IBM unveils analytics solutions centre
IBM has announced that it is to open an analytics solution centre in Berlin to serve healthcare organisations, the public sector and universities. The company says the centre will help to give clients faster access to high quality data and to help them analyse and interpret it, leading to improved decision-making. It will also focus […]
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SOCITM calls for IT stimulus
A leading consortium has called for a £1 billion IT stimulus package from central government to overhaul IT services in local government, health and education in order to cut carbon emissions and create savings. Steve Palmer, president of SOCITM, told E-Health Insider: “We are not asking for a grant, we want to borrow the money […]
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2009 Baltic e-health conference announced
The third Baltic Conference on e-health will take place in Hamburg on September 16, 2009, and this year focus on cross-border care. The conference, to be hosted in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, will focus primarily on Cross-Border Healthcare, optimisation of clinical and business processes and telemedicine. The event aims to provide a cross sector […]
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Permanente way
Kaiser Permanente is making rapid progress with electronic health records. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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Slovenia rolls out e-health card
The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia has announced that it will roll-out a new electronic health insurance card system across the country.
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IBM teams with Google to mobilise patient data
New software to enable data to be easily moved from remote personal monitoring devices into Google Health personal health records announced.
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Bath extends deal with IBM for legacy system
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust has signed a one-year, £520,000 deal with IBM to extend support for its hospital information system. The extension will take the contract with IBM to manage the TDS patient administration system into its seventeenth year. The trust was meant to have received a replacement Cerner Millennium system as part […]
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InterSystems introduces DeepSee
US health IT systems specialist InterSystems has announced the international launch of its new business intelligence (BI) product, DeepSee. The DeepSee product, which is embedded into InterSystems and partners software, is designed to deliver real-time BI for operational business processes, using current transactional data. InterSystems says the embedded BI approach avoids the need for separate […]
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IBM develop simulator for osteoporosis
IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory and scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) have developed a new system which provides extensive simulation of real human bone structures, providing doctors with a high definition view of the strength or fragility of bones. The company says the new system could lead to better clinical tools […]
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NHS Choices selects Capita as preferred bidder
Capita has been announced as the preferred bidder to deliver NHS Choices for the next three years.
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