The Tablet PC on Test
Hospital doctor and former computer programmer, Andrew Harrison, has been testing a Tablet PC on the wards with some interesting results… Pen, paper and a computer terminal are essential tools in my work as a junior doctor. I use the computer primarily to look up test results, and pen and paper for everything else. When […]
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US Healthcare Slow to Adopt IT
“The most dangerous instrument in medicine is the fountain pen,” according to group president of McKesson, Duncan James, interviewed in a BusinessWeek round up of US healthcare technology. The influential magazine and its online service concludes – as many have before – that healthcare has been very slow to adopt information technology that could improve […]
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European Mobile Health Takes First Steps
Mobile health aims to do nothing less than turn traditional healthcare on its head. As numerous speakers at Mobile Health Europe pointed out, to describe care provided away from a doctor’s office or hospital clinic as "remote care" misses the point entirely if you’re a patient. The promise of mobile healthcare is to enable care […]
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New Approach on Electronic Records Needed
Despite the investment of tens of billions of Euros in healthcare IT the industry worldwide has failed to deliver on the vision of an integrated computer-based electronic medical record. Instead the industry must now focus on focused web-based electronic health records that deliver immediate benefits to patients and clinicians. Opening Mobile-Health Europe in Maastricht this […]
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Mobile Mental Health EPR a European First
Mental Health services are rarely seen as being on the glamorous side of information technology in healthcare but a groundbreaking Dutch project has shown the benefits of providing mental health professionals with the very latest in mobile technology. Backed by the specialist Robert Fleury hospital in The Hague, a project to develop mobile electronic patient […]
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Mobile Health Alliance to Launch in Europe
European healthcare providers, clinicians and technology firms involved in developing mobile healthcare applications and technologies are to be invited to join a European Mobile Health Alliance to be launched in May. The new European body is to be established as the European arm of MoHCA (Mobile Healthcare Alliance), a non-for-profit association dedicated to promoting the […]
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Physicians Slow to Adopt Emerging Technology
A new report by consultants Deloitte & Touche and Fulcrum Analytics says the adoption of new technology by US family doctors is slow and will remain incremental until technology and associated applications are integrated at the point of care and deliver economic benefits. Less than a quarter of the 1,200 US physicians surveyed for the […]
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Siemens to Help Build Digital Hospital
Siemens Corporation is to work with the US HealthSouth Corporation to create a groundbreaking totally integrated, all-digital and completely automated hospital. Technology will be used in every part of the new hospital to improve quality and save costs. Every patient treated in the new hospital will wear a "wellness monitor" to monitor their vital signs […]
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Gates Says NHS Must Deliver in Digital Age
It’s not every day that you get to see the richest man in the world, and the gawp factor must have accounted for a good number of the 150-odd NHS chief executives and directors that attended last week’s Microsoft-sponsored Department of Health IT conference. But the man from Redmond offered them little in way of […]
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Pfizer, IBM and Microsoft Launch Physician IT Services Firm
Pfizer, IBM and Microsoft have jointly announced the launch of a newly formed healthcare technology applications company targeting the US office-based physicians, in a collaboration first announced in March. The new privately-held company, named Amicore, will focus on reducing physicians’ administrative workload and paperwork, by providing workflow and connectivity solutions. Plans call for the system […]
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