2008 - Digital Health

2 September 2008

Barts and the London NHS Trust projects a £3m shortfall in income this year due to serious data, reporting and

2 September 2008

Informing Healthcare has announced that the Individual Health Record has been used for the first time in acute care. Staff

2 September 2008

Almost one in ten hospital episodes is incorrectly coded, according to an analysis carried out by the Audit Commission. The

2 September 2008

GE Healthcare’s Centricity cardiovascular information system has won Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 ‘product line leadership’ award. The GE CIS system

1 September 2008

Fujitsu may be preparing to seek up to £700m in compensation from the Department of Health for the termination of its

1 September 2008

A new Lithuanian ehealth information website has been launched to keep health professionals and members of the public informed about

1 September 2008

The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been delayed until January 2009. The pilot of the delayed programme

1 September 2008

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has created a secure remote working environment for clinicians to support its business strategy

29 August 2008

Germany’s CompuGROUP Holding AG has appointed Christian Teig as its new chief financial officer. Immediately prior to his new appointment

29 August 2008

Fake sicknotes, complete with doctors’ stamps, are being sold online. The DoctorsNoteStore.com website is selling the fake doctors’ sicknotes for

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