Microsoft Launches NHS Integration Vision
Microsoft has launched a blueprint which it says will enable the NHS to integrate health legacy IT systems cost-effectively and deliver joined-up healthcare. The US software-giant describes its vision as EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), an approach grounded in Microsoft’s .NET suite of products to deliver joined-up, distributed web services. The emerging .NET strategy is based […]
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SNOMED International Introduces Clinical Terms First Release
SNOMED has announced the launch of SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED(R) CT) First Release, the clinical coding terminology that the NHS has part funded and chosen as its preferred clinical terminology tool for coding electronic clinical data. The new terminology, developed by a division of the College of American Pathologists, is said to be the most comprehensive […]
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New Special HA Planned to Run Shared Services
A new special health authority is planned for the end of 2002 to run the NHS Shared Services Initiative, it was announced today. The initiative, which was launched in October 1999, is responsible for large scale projects which use advanced technology to provide shared, non-core services across the NHS. The aim is to run functions […]
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GPs Get Connected to NHSDirect
Patients registered with a group of practices in South West London have become some of the first to benefit from encrypted clinical messaging to link together out of hours services, NHS Direct and GP practices. The new system enables a record of the details of an NHS Direct out of hours consultation to be securely […]
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InHealth Group Buys UK Arm of IBA Health
InHealth Group, the acquisitive UK health services, equipment and IM&T firm, today announced it has acquired the UK business of Australian health IT supplier IBA Health Limited The deal is valued at £5.2m excluding annual support fees and the option for future software licences. InHealth Group is also investing £1.8m in ordinary shares of IBA […]
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InferMed Partners with BMJ’s Clinical Evidence
The BMJ Publishing Group has teamed up with InferMed, a leading UK provider of clinical software, to assess the feasibility of developing a system that electronically mimics the process that doctors naturally use to make clinical decisions. The two organisations say their shared objective is to develop an electronic clinical decision ‘support system’ to help […]
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Companion Healthcare and Eli Lilly launch Web-based Diabetes Programme
Companion Healthcare, a managed care subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, has developed an online Diabetes Education Centre for its members in partnership with pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly. The Diabetes Education Centre http://www.diabeteseducationcenter.com/, created by Eli Lilly, is fully interactive and claimed to provide a simple, convenient way for Companion Healthcare members […]
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