Europe making progress to eHospitals
A major new survey of IT use in almost 900 European hospitals, including 73 in the UK, has found that their number one priority for IT investment is in document management systems, to help manage paper medical records and as a step towards integrated electronic medical records. The research, which was carried out by Silicon […]
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Converge and win
Convergence between medical devices and IT systems is an obvious area for adding value in healthcare. Where do we look for best results?
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A few billion between friends?
After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check on understanding of this key issue.
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European census looks at 900 hospitals’ IT
A major census of 900 European hospitals’ progress in healthcare IT is underway looking at a range of key factors in e-health development. The European Hospital Census is being carried out by HBS Consulting on behalf of the Health Information Network Europe (HINE) , a service run by Deloitte working with healthcare IT specialists, Silicon Bridge Research. […]
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True costs of NPfIT greater than predicted?
The true costs of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are probably going to be much greater than any of the predictions, a conference on the NHS Care Records Service heard this week. Murray Bywater, managing director of Silicon Bridge consultants and a leading healthcare IT analyst, predicted that effective user involvement could add more […]
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