NHS 24 Roll-Out Reaches Aberdeen

Malcolm Chisholm, Scotland’s health minister, has confirmed that the roll-out of the NHS 24 , the Scottish version of the
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Pharmaceuticals Now Available through GHX

In addition to medical products, St Johannes-Gesellschaft Hospital in Dortmund has now started trading pharmaceuticals electronically through Global Healthcare Exchange
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MyDocOnline Adds Evidence-Based Guidelines

MyDocOnline a US e-health subsidiary of Pharma firm Aventis; is to incorporate an evidence-based care management application EBMpact, into its
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Lancashire Selects Per-Se for Electronic Records

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a deal with Per-Se Technologies Inc. to implement its Patient clinical information system.
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SNOMED Adds Nursing Terms

  The American College of Pathologists has signed an agreement to integrate detailed nursing interventions and outcomes classifications into the
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Cerner Buys German PACS Firm

Cerner Corp., the leading US health IT supplier, is to acquire Image Devices GmbH, a German developer of picture archiving
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ComMedica Secures Further Backing

ComMedica Limited, an innovative web-based clinical information system company spun-out from London’s Imperial College, has secured a further £2 million
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Patient Letters: Do We Really Need More Research?

Two leading doctors have challenged the need for further research and pilots on the NHS Plan’s pledge to give patients
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Addenbrooke’s To Develop Web-based Cancer System

Addenbrooke’s Hospital is to build a Web-based clinical cancer information system for use within the trust over NHSnet and by
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Legionnaires’ in Cumbria: NHS Strategic Tracing System Helps Ease Public Fears

The latest version of the NHS Strategic Tracing System (NSTS) has played a key role in getting the results of
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