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RFID tags on medication introduced in US

US regulators the Food and Drug Administration have released guidance for the attachment of RFID tags to drug packaging in
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Cerner to buy private physician system supplier

Kansas-based Cerner Corp. has today announced that it has signed an agreement to buy the Medical Division of VitalWorks Inc,
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Patient database to boost research

The University of Birmingham is piloting a new computer network that will allow clinicians to register patients for clinical trials and
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Cost is main problem in implementing US EHR

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has warned that funding and encouragement of early adoption are a few
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Mixed results as Contact splutters into life

E-Health Insider has had a bumper response from NHS staff sharing their experiences of the first week of Contact, the new
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Standard NHS user interface to be developed

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Programme for IT to deliver a
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Mencap chief exec joins care record board

Jo Williams, chief executive of Mencap, the UK’s leading learning disability charity, has joined the National Programme for IT’s Care
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Large scale MiSys EPR goes live in Saudi

Saudi Arabia’s National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), the healthcare facility for the Saudi Arabian military police, has gone live with
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Keeping an eye on ID

Identifying patients to access their records can be a big problem for A&E staff and paramedics. So why not use
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Life outside NPfIT: Wales

In the first part of a series, E-Health Insider looks at the developments in healthcare IT in Wales, under the
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