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15 December 2008

Commission sets out steps on patient safety

The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm
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11 December 2008

Watchdog calls for safety culture

The Healthcare Commission has urged the NHS to generate better comparative information on safe care and outcomes and to set
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1 December 2008

Vienna to host IHE’s 2009 Connectathon

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Europe will hold its ninth annual Connectathon event in Vienna, Austria, on 20-24 April next
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27 November 2008

Fujitsu Siemens launches health tablet PC

Fujitsu Siemens computers has launched the ESPRIMO MA, a mobile tablet PC for the health sector.
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27 November 2008

Lib Dems demand tougher data protection

The Liberal Democrats are calling on the Department of Health to publish minimum standards for the protection of data on
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26 November 2008

HL7 publishes four implementation guides

Health Level Seven (HL7), a developer of global healthcare standards, has announced the launch of four new implementation guides with
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19 November 2008

Interoperable PHRs could save US $21bn a year

A US study has projected that personal health records have the potential to save the US healthcare system €16.3 billion
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18 November 2008

Ireland gets register of health informatics pros

The Health Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) will this week launch the first Irish register of health informatics professionals at
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18 November 2008

Clinical Solutions partners with Health Language

Clinical telephone triage software specialist Clinical has announced a partnership with Health Language Inc. (HLI), the US-based supplier of language
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17 November 2008

Cayton stakes claim to independence of NIGB

The new chair of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care has criticised plans to make it
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