DHI News Team - Digital Health

23 January 2007

GP Systems of Choice procurement on track but late

The GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) scheme looks likely to go ahead – although procurement will not be complete by 1

23 January 2007

Liquidlogic deploys children’s system at Cumbria

Health and social care software specialists Liquidlogic have announced that their ‘Protocol’ integrated children’s system has been successfully deployed by

23 January 2007

SNOMED negotiations miss deadline – but continue

Talks to negotiate a new International Standards Development Organisation (SDO) for the clinical terminology, SNOMED CT, missed their first deadline

22 January 2007

‘Nurse bots’ to be developed by 2010

The European Union is funding scientists to develop ‘nurse bots’, mechanised robots designed to perform basic tasks such as mopping

22 January 2007

BMJ says it will have to charge for BestTreatments

The BMJ Group says the Department of Health’s withdrawl of funding from its award-winning website BestTreatments means it will now probably have to

22 January 2007

Council counts savings of telecare for elderly

An audit by Gloucestershire County Council looking at the amount of savings available to them by implementing telecare found that

22 January 2007

Siemens take over leading German systems provider

Siemens Medical Solutions have acquired the German health information systems developers Gesellschaft für Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen mbH (GSD).