Health 2.0 comes to Europe
The first European Health 2.0 conference, on how web 2.0 and social media are transforming healthcare systems in Europe, will be held in Paris this spring.
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EHI and doctors.net take pulse of NHS IT
NHS IT and alternatives to some or all of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have broken into the non-specialist press in recent weeks. First, papers speculated that the Conservative Party might be planning to tear up the National Programme for IT in the NHS and to let people use personal health record platforms […]
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Time to change the record?
E-Health Insider’s Sarah Bruce gauges reaction to the Conservatives’ response to the independent review of NHS IT.
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Conservatives pledge to ‘halt’ LSP deals
The Conservative party has pledged to scrap the NHS Spine and halt and re-negotiate the two main contracts with BT and Computer Sciences Corporation in order to revamp NHS IT.
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Davis: Google hits back
Google’s global privacy counsel has hit back at former shadow home secretary David Davis for an article criticising the Conservative Party’s reported plans to hand over medical records to the search giant. In a lively post on his European Public Policy Blog, Peter Fleischer said Google had been “surprised and disappointed” to read Davis’ “vitriolic” […]
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Declaration of Rights for health data launched
A high profile coalition of patient advocates, US doctors, software vendors and bloggers have launched a Declaration of Rights for health data, HealthDataRights.org. The new site aims to use social media to build support for increasing patient access to electronic health records. Although launched in the US, HealthDataRights appears universal in its aspirations. The main […]
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Microsoft licenses HealthVault for Canada
Microsoft has signed a partnership with Canadian telecoms firm Telus, which will become the first firm outside the US to offer Microsoft’s HealthVault personal health platform.
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New York opens-up records with Microsoft
Microsoft has launched the latest version of its Amalga data aggregation platform, which includes connectivity to its HealthVault personal health records platform. The company has also announced that one of America’s most prominent hospitals will be using both technologies to open up its records, tests and other health information to patients. New York Presbyterian Hospital […]
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BridgeForward targets primary care
BridgeForward Software has launched a version of its ClearSpan integration server for GPs and primary care. Physician Integrator has been unveiled ahead of the annual HIMMS technology conference in Chicago at the start of next month. It has been designed to integrate a number of US systems, including the personal health record systems launched by […]
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EHI interview: Peter Neupert
Microsoft’s vice president for health strategy, recently spoke to the US Senate’s HELP committee. Last week, he spoke to EHI editor Jon Hoeksma.
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