17 February 2011

CSC set to win ASCC child and community

Sources suggest that the winner of the ASCC procurment for child and community health systems in the South will be
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14 February 2011

Wireless monitoring for heart patients

Wireless monitoring for heart failure patients reduces hospital admissions, says study
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14 February 2011

CSC gets Australian JeHDI warrior job

Global IT service provider CSC has been chosen by the Australian Department of Defence to revamp military electronic health records
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14 February 2011

Canada commits £239m to EMR investment

Canadian ehealth body Health Infoway is to invest £239m to fund electronic medical record systems in community-based practices and outpatient
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10 February 2011

IBM and Carefx form partnership

IBM has announced a partnership with Carefx to enable NHS trusts to provide clinicians with real-time access to patient data
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7 February 2011

SUS anonymisation described as trivial

Fresh questions have been raised over the anonymity of de-identified patient data provided through the NHS secondary uses service for
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3 February 2011

Health still tops internet searches

Searching for health information is the third most common online activity among US internet users, with 80% reporting that they
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3 February 2011

Phone pics allow prescription refills

The US pharmacy chain Wallgreens has launched an app that allows customers to order prescription refills by taking a photo
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1 February 2011

X-prize to tackle hospital admissions

A $3m x-prize competition has been launched by the US Heritage Provider Network to develop a ‘breakthrough’ algorithm that can
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27 January 2011

Doctors 2.0 and You announced

A new conference is to be held in Paris in June to examine how doctors use social media and Web
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