Google Health now made for sharing
Google Health has unveiled a new feature of its online personal health record that allows users to share their medical details with doctors, carers or family members. The new features allow a user to elect to share either a summary or selected details of their record with chosen individuals. The sharing feature can subsequently be […]
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Cerner director is Obama’s health czar
US president Barack Obama has announced a former director of Cerner Corporation as director of the White House Office for Health Reform. Nancy-Ann DeParle resigned from Cerner’s eight-member board last week to run the newly created office, which will help to co-ordinate the president’s health reform agenda with Congress. She joined Cerner in May 2001. […]
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Bahía wins Cantabrian medical imaging deal
Spanish software developer Bahía Software has been awarded a contract to develop and consolidate a plan for scanning medical images at hospital centres within the Cantabrian Health Service. The firm says the implementation of the project over the next 16-months will allow all the results of medical tests, such as x-rays for example, to be […]
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Nürnberg Hospital chooses Barco displays
Medical imaging specialist Barco has won a large PACS display order from the Nürnberg Hospital South in Nürnberg, Germany. Under an agreement with PACS provider MedicalCommunications GmbH, Barco will provide the hospital group with dedicated colour and greyscale display systems. Barco already supplies PACS displays for hospital Nürnberg North. With 2,170 beds and 5,500 staff […]
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Hong Kong plans e-health records
Hong Kong’s Food and Health Bureau has set out healthcare reform plans that include proposals to develop a Hong Kong-wide electronic patient record-sharing system. The shared electronic health record system would enable different public and private healthcare providers to enter, transfer and access patient data. The system would include mechanisms for obtaining patients’ consent, and […]
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Carestream PACS installed in Austrian military hospitals
Wien-Stammersdorf in Vienna Carestream Health has installed a PACS solution into three military hospitals in Austria. The PACS solution consists of installations at Wien-Stammersdorf in Vienna, together with hospitals at Graz and Innsbruck, all of which are linked to a central PACS archive located in Vienna. The tender process to replace the existing PACS […]
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UK Lords welcomes cross-border health
The United Kingdom’s House of Lords has welcomed a proposal from the European Commission for a Directive on patients’ rights to cross-border healthcare. The Lord’s EU Committee said that information was key to enabling cross-border healthcare to work effectively for EU citizens. However, the upper chamber of the House of Commons said that due to […]
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Finland builds on local foundations
Finland is on track to build a national electronic health record repository, which clinicians will be legally required to start using from 2011. The ambitious project, which also involves the development of a national e-prescription service and a patient-viewable record called eView, represents one of the more comprehensive e-health initiatives in Europe. Crucially, it builds […]
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Junior docs – recruitment system works
Hicom Technology has announced that 18,000 junior doctors have successfully completed the registration and application stages of the regional doctors’ appointments process through its I:CAMS online system. The company has deployed I:CAMS across 11 of the 13 recruiting UK deaneries and is hoping to work with the remaining two next year. Deaneries were given responsibility […]
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Scottish NHS to invest €1.8m in e-health
Online scanning to allow remote diagnosis for island-based patients and Scotland’s biggest telehealth system are among a range of hi-tech projects to help more patients to be treated quicker and closer to home. The Scottish NHS is to invest €1.8m in e-health – including €640,000 funding from the country’s major health IT contractor Atos Origin. […]
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