Private medical records offered for sale
Medical records of patients treated at a private British hospital, The London Clinic, have been illegally sold to undercover investigators. The revelations were made in ITV’s Tonight Programme report, Health Records For Sale, broadcast last night. The programme reported that hundreds of files containing details of patients’ conditions, home addresses and dates of birth were […]
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Vet centre
Dr Adam Darkins explains to Neil Versel why telehealth is key to the future of the Veterans Health Administration.
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Electronic records used to spot abuse
Electronic patient records can be used to predict a patient’s risk of receiving a future diagnosis of domestic abuse, according to research published this week. Doctors from the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program and Harvard Medical School analysed records from more than 500,000 patients aged over 18, for whom they had at least four years’ […]
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US releases $1.2 billion for EMRs
The US government is releasing $1.2 billion (€800m) to help healthcare providers implement and use electronic medical records. The grants include $598m (€400m) to set up about 70 health information technology centres, which will provide technical assistance and support for the implementation of EMRs. A further $564m will be spent on health information networks to allow […]
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iCS connects German healthcare providers
German Hospital, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, has extended its contract with iSoft to implement its Collaboration Suite (iCS) portal, to help join patient information between primary and secondary care. The new contract extends a contract originally signed ten years ago and also covers the continued use of the iSoft’s hospital information system, ClinicCentre. Isoft […]
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Summary record starts in Sweden
Örebro County Council has become the first part of Sweden to implement the national patient summary record. Sarah Bruce reports.
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iSoft signs fifth German Lorenzo site
Health software firm, iSoft, has announced the fifth German early adopter site that will implement elements of its Lorenzo software as it becomes available. In a deal worth €1.8m, Klinikum Saarbrücken will install iSoft’s ClincCentre hospital information system (HIS). According to iSoft, as replacement Lorenzo modules become available Klinikum Saarbrücken will gradually replace individual modules […]
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French hospital gets Smart
JAOtech Obie Smart More than 600 JAOtech Obie Smart Terminals, for use by clinicians and patients, have been installed at the Centre Hospitalier de la Region d’Annecy in South East France. The deployment of the 17-inch all-in-one terminals, which provide medical staff with secure access to clinical data at the patients’ bedside, is believed to […]
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Permanente way
Kaiser Permanente is making rapid progress with electronic health records. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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Virginia Department of Health hacked
An attack on the Virginia Department of Health Professionals (VDHP) website, resulted in a prescriptions website being hacked and a $10m ransom demand for the return of millions of allegedly stolen patient records. US press reports and blogs say the attack involved over eight million electronic patient records and some 35m prescription records. That an […]
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