2008 - Digital Health

28 February 2008

Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.

28 February 2008

Annual savings of 60,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and around £121m on travel costs could be achieved if 3% of

28 February 2008

Over 7,500 staff working across 160 GP surgeries, health centres and acute hospitals in St Helens and Knowsley, Merseyside, are

28 February 2008

After a year of negotiations, German health insurance companies have agreed to pay doctors for the smartcard readers and software

27 February 2008

N3 is essential to the modern NHS. As the largest Virtual Private Network in Europe it is a project of

27 February 2008

The German Home Office has confirmed that a new electronic identity card for German citizens will incorporate the use of

27 February 2008

Emergency staff at London’s Charing Cross Hospital are using a new interactive whiteboard from SMART Technologies, which has centralised all

27 February 2008

Patient’s heart being monitored via bed sheet. Philips Research is to pilot a new bed with built-in sensors and the

26 February 2008

CSC has yet to sign its contract with Connecting for Health to take part in the GP Systems of Choice

26 February 2008

Connecting for Health’s GP2GP record transfer project is meeting its targets ahead of schedule and expects to reach 100,000 record

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