EC looks to IT to help support older people
The European Commission has unveiled plans for a new €1bn European Action Plan to research the effectiveness of the use of ICT in improving the life of older people at home, in the workplace and in society in general. “Ageing Well in the Information Society” is a new research project, aimed at ensuring that by […]
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how Agfa is planning to tackle the UK hospital Electronic Patient Record market.
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EC looks to mainstream telehealth
Members of the European Commission have said that they intend to set up an action plan to deal with the challenges of an ageing population and make telehealth more mainstream. Speaking at the London Telehealth Symposium earlier this year, three EC civil servants told the audience that the eHealth industry, had been allocated funds by […]
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Free online archive of medical research papers launched
Over 500,000 medical research papers are now available for free on the internet, following the launch of the UK PubMed Central online archive. UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is an online archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. It is the UK equivalent of the American PubMed Central database, which is used […]
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More focus on research needed in NPfIT, says report
Leading academic medical researchers say that the Care Record Guarantee currently makes commitments that, if strictly interpreted would prevent a significant number of research projects from using Connecting for Health data. Their comments, which were made in a report from the Academy of Medical Sciences released last week, have stirred controversy with the assertion that medical advances […]
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NHS e-health research should focus on patients
Researchers into e-health should be concentrating on long-term change and projects from the patients’ point of view, rather than studying the subject as a short-term phenomenon, according to the results of a wide-ranging survey across NHS stakeholders. Among the research topics suggested were what kind of services patients would consider most useful for electronic ordering […]
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Virtual healthcare research institute launched
A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in Healthcare Practice (VIRIHP). Members will work together via online discussion boards, email and telephone and video conferencing in addition to conventional face-to-face meetings twice a year. One of the institute’s objectives will be to “develop […]
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Virtual NHS research institute proposed
A virtual National Institute for Health Research linking together NHS R&D centres around England is at the centre of proposals in a new research strategy out for consultation. The strategy paper says that the new institute would have: • A linked set of technology platforms to support clinical research in selected research-intensive hospitals and NHS […]
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£300k offered for research into NHS IT attitudes
The NHS Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) R&D programme have put out a call for proposals, offering £300,000 for research into topics including attitudes of healthcare professionals towards e-health and how uptake of technology can be increased. Sums of £300,000 are also available for research into how the internet can be used as a health […]
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Cerner to help deliver paediatric research through IT
Children’s Hospital Boston, one of the largest and most prestigious paediatric medical centres in the United States, and a part of Harvard Medical School, has partnered with Cerner Corp to improve paediatric care and research through the use of advanced healthcare information technology solutions. As part of the partnership with Cerner, Children’s will develop a […]
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