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Irish health service deploys new intranet

The Irish Health Service Executive has deployed a new intranet, installed by pTools Software The HSE intranet, which is built
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French researchers develop symbols for drug info

A new icon system has been developed by researchers in France to enable practitioners to identify drug information using medical
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Six trusts win awards for safety and quality

Healthcare intelligence specialists CHKS Group has presented six NHS trusts across Great Britain with awards recognising outstanding achievement in patient
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Eighty per cent of European GPs using e-records

A new Europe-wide survey on e-health has found that 87% of European GPs now use a computer, 80% of whom
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IT heads gather in Greifswald for ALKRZ

Increasing numbers of university hospitals in Germany are using shared IT systems for biomedical research. Greifswald university hospital, where the
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Victoria suffers Cerner and iSoft delays

A large-scale Australian health IT project, using the same two key software suppliers as the NHS IT programme, is two
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Gibraltar launches electronic transcription application

The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) has launched a new prescription transcribing and dispensing application, incorporating First DataBank Europe’s (FDBE) Multilex
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Swedish centre mines drug reaction data

A Swedish monitoring centre is using data mining techniques to help identify adverse drug reactions based on Yellow Card patient
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Mobile monitoring for Barmer customers

Barmer Ersatzkasse, Germany’s biggest health insurance company, has begun to offer its 7m customers mobile phone based fitness monitoring. The
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iSoft install laboratory system in Maltese hospital

iSoft has successfully installed i.Laboratory in the Mater Dei hospital, Malta, five months after signing a contract to implement the
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