iSoft’s Lorenzo hits new highs in benchmarks
Manchester based health software firm iSoft has announced that its Lorenzo healthcare solution has hit new benchmark highs in handling simultaneous transactions and concurrent users. In the benchmark tests, carried out with HP, Microsoft and Intel, Lorenzo was said to have handled six million ‘real’ transactions an hour for 25,000 concurrent users. The benchmark was […]
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Agfa launches mobile version of Impax 6.0 PACS
Agfa has launched an “ultra thin” mobile version of its Impax 6.0 picture archiving and communications system (PACS) which is due to be deployed in NHS trusts in North-east and Eastern England. The mobile solution which promises secure “anywhere access” to patient data and images was unveiled at the Health Information Management Systems Society convention […]
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Marching on
E-Health Insider caught up with Accenture’s health chief Ken Lacey at HIMSS in San Diego and discussed the LSP’s progress so far.
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HIMSS makes European move
Nine European organisations and HIMSS, the US-based Health Information and Management Systems Society, have combined to produce a new conference, the World of Healthcare IT. The first meeting will be held in Geneva on 10-13 October and organisers promise it will be the ‘first of its kind’ bringing together major European institutions and e-health organisations for […]
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US health IT tsar rejects ‘Google’ style record sharing
The idea of a creating a virtual network that keeps health data in its original store and shares information via a ‘Google-type’ search is not on the horizon at the moment, according to the leader of US’ electronic medical records programme, Dr David Brailer. Speaking at a press briefing at the HIMSS (Health Information Management […]
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National US personal health record launched
Medem, a not-for-profit company created by leading US medical societies including the American Medical Association, announced this week the national launch of an internet-based ‘personal health record’, that is intended to become the "ATM service for healthcare". The new freely available internet-based personal health record, iHealthRecord, will allow patients to easily access and organise their […]
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Online STD tests offer results and advice
A website has been set up by a sexual health foundation in San Francisco that allows men to order STD tests and receive results and medical counselling online. The site, aimed primarily at gay and bisexual men, is funded by the San Francisco Department of Health and was created by the non-profit organisation Internet Sexuality […]
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New alliance could be US e-prescribing’s cup of tea
A group of IT companies involved in providing healthcare solutions have started up Café Rx, an open alliance devoted to championing the adoption of electronic prescribing across the US. The organisation, announced last week at the National Council for Prescription Drug Programmes’ (NCPDP) Educational Forum in San Francisco, promises to support and lobby for electronic […]
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Italian national organ transplant centre to use E-Ceptionist
Centro Nazionale Trapianti, the Italian National Organ Transplant Centre, in a project with TelBios S.p.A., is to use E-Ceptionist’s electronic booking system to manage the organ donation process across Italy. The introduction of the new electronic booking system is intended to maximise the number of successful recipients of donated organs, and minimise the number of […]
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National US health information infrastructure called for
The influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a new report calling on the US Government to create national data standards for collecting and exchanging electronic medical information that would provide a national ‘information infrastructure’ to help spur the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs). The report outlines a plan to accelerate the development of […]
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