HIMSS singing
With former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on its speaker rota, this year’s HIMSS conference was always going to be about money. Neil Versel reports from Chicago.
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GE and Intel commit €184m to telecare research
General Electric and Intel have joined forces to develop hi-tech health care products that will allow patients to be treated at home. The companies will invest €184m ($250m) in the project over the next five years to market and develop home-based health technologies that will help older people live independently and patients with chronic conditions […]
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Over here
Is Cerner Millennium over big, over corporate and over hard to deploy? Or is it a great system that just needs time and investment ? Neil Versel reports.
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Clinical Solutions partners with Fujitsu in Spain
Fujitsu and Clinical Solutions have announced a partnership to improve access to healthcare advice and services in Spain. Under the new partnership the two firms will work together on projects designed to improve the delivery of quality healthcare through the use of intelligent systems and data analysis. Areas of joint work will focus on the […]
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Data blindness
The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far better systems to capture patient experience.
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HL7 releases child health EHR standard
Health Level Seven (HL7), the healthcare IT standards development organisation, has released the first standard specifying the key functional requirements for child healthcare in an electronic health record (EHR) system. The HL7 child health functional profile for EHR systems, builds on the HL7 EHR system functional model. It is the first for children approved by […]
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Germany’s e-health smartcard scaled back
Key clinical components of Germany’s flagship national e-health smartcard programme look set to be dropped or delayed because of problems encountered in the first seven pilot sites.
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Commission sets out steps on patient safety
The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm from the healthcare they received. One of the main recommendations is to improve the data collection, recording and reporting on medical errors. Each year, three million people are estimated to acquire Healthcare Associated Infections in […]
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JAC wins South African pharmacy contract
Medicines management software specialist JAC has won a contract to provide the latest version of its pharmacy management software to hospitals in the Western Cape province of South Africa. JAC, a subsidiary of Mediware Information Systems, has been awarded the new contract by the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC) of South Africa to implement the […]
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Interoperable PHRs could save US $21bn a year
A US study has projected that personal health records have the potential to save the US healthcare system €16.3 billion a year.
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