Interoperability

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HL7 UK to hold NHS systems interoperability seminars

HL7 UK, the promoter of healthcare interoperability standards, have announced they are to hold a series of free one-day seminars
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Italy develops chronic disease tools

The Italian health service is aiming to make use of its IT to create an integrated tool to improve care
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Siemens at the crossroads

Klaus Kleinfeld who resigned as Siemens' chief executive last week was also the mastermind behind the company's healthcare IT development.
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OECD countries need ehealth to reform

The vision of eHealth records being accessible in different European Union countries and beyond is now being looked at by
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Data from half a million patients to aid research

UK Biobank, a medical research initiative charity, is to start using patient data to provide reliable assessment of different causes
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Initial sites wanted for the next phase of EPS

NHS Connecting for Health is recruiting primary care trusts to be initial implementation sites for release two of the electronic
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NPfIT ‘needs re-evaluating to be a success’

Connecting for Health must look at three key things – scalability, complexity and availability if the National Programme for Information
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Calderdale and Huddersfield extends home grown PAS

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has extended its existing home grown patient administration system (PAS) from one site to
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Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda

Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information
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Additional systems catalogue plans ‘near completion’

Plans for a catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’ covering a wide range of specialist clinical systems are in the final
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