Health

10 July 2008

Servicio Extremeno de Salud selects Autonomy

Spanish public healthcare service provider Servicio Extremeno de Salud has selected Autonomy to provide it with an enterprise-wide search platform

9 July 2008

Darzi’s report for the digital generation

The final report of the Next Stage Review of the English NHS sees technology-driven change as one of the challenges

9 July 2008

Europe aims for interoperable EHRs by 2015

The European Commission has published new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records

8 July 2008

Online pharmacies a ‘counterfeiting superhighway’

Over 60% of medicines purchased online are fake and could potentially be lethal for vulnerable patients according to EAASM.

7 July 2008

Remote patient monitoring market on rise

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan into European remote patient monitoring markets, says that the quality and benefits of the technology

7 July 2008

Belgium hospitals use dbMotion for interoperability

IRIS, a network of five public hospitals in Brussels, is to implement a project to provide an interoperability platform for medical

4 July 2008

CompuGroup goes into rehab

Germany’s CompuGroup has announced that it will buy 90% of All for One, a specialist provider of software for rehabilitation

3 July 2008

AOK Plus to use ICW telemedicine system

German health insurers AOK Plus has commissioned InterComponentWare to implement a telemedicine system to care for patients with serious chronic

2 July 2008

Europe aims for borderless electronic health records

The European Commission has launched two major e-health initiatives aimed at achieving interoperable e-health systems across Europe

2 July 2008

Wales opens new health informatics lab

Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, has opened a new state-of-the-art health informatics research laboratory at Swansea University, designed