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14 January 2009

Global IT spend to fall in 2009

Weakening economies is set to push spending on information technology products and services down 3% after seven years of continuous
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13 January 2009

EU sets e-health map for 2009

Ilias Iakovidis and Michael Palmer tell E-Health Europe’s Outi Alapekkala how e-health will develop in 2009 and far beyond.
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13 January 2009

HL7 releases child health EHR standard

Health Level Seven (HL7), the healthcare IT standards development organisation, has released the first standard specifying the key functional requirements
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7 January 2009

US sets out privacy principles for EHRs

The US Department of Health and Human Services has published new privacy guidelines for electronic health records (EHRs), based on
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6 January 2009

Hospitals advised to end mobile phone bans

Hospitals in England have been told to consider allowing “more liberal use of mobile phones”, following new guidance issued today
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31 December 2008

This is the year to come

Sandra Hempel asks leading figures in healthcare IT to look ahead to 2009.
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24 December 2008

Obama urged to commit $25 billion to health IT

The US Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society have urged President Obama to invest a minimum of $25 billion in
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23 December 2008

HL7 publishes draft PHR standards

International healthcare IT standards body Health Level Seven (HL7), has published the Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM)
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22 December 2008

Bath extends deal with IBM for legacy system

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust has signed a one-year, £520,000 deal with IBM to extend support for its hospital
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15 December 2008

Philips scores top in patient monitoring

Royal Philips Electronics says its customers have rated Philips Healthcare in first place in overall service performance for Patient Monitoring
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