What Can the Archers Teach e-Pharma?
The familiar “dum-de-dum” theme tune of The Archers’ radio soap was an unexpected item on the programme of the Pharmaceutical Marketing Society’s autumn conference as members explored the elements of a successful community web site. The Archers Addicts was used as an example of a successful community site by one of its creators, Keith Pollard […]
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Web-based Clinical Information System Goes Live at Birmingham
Birmingham City Hospital NHS Trust has become the first trust in England to deploy a fully web-based, end-to-end, enterprise-wide clinical system to every desktop in the hospital. The new web-based clinical information system, developed by health IT supplier iSoft builds on early in-house development work carried out by the trust, and is based on the […]
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Scottish Universities Explore Virtual Medical School
Scotland’s five medical schools will collaborate over the next six months in a feasibility study on the shared concept of an International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS). The medical schools at the Universities of Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews will receive support from leading medical schools in the US, Australasia and other parts of […]
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Online Demand Soars for Anthrax Antibiotic
As the reverberations of 11 September continue to be felt, many members of the public turned to online pharmacies as anthrax scares led to soaring demand for antibiotics, such as Cipro, According to the Washington Post spot shortages of Cipro are now appearing as people worried about anthrax begin to hoard the drug. There have […]
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Novo Nordisk Names Internet Diabetes Innovators
Three innovative approaches to using the Internet to improve the lives of people with diabetes have been recognised by Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk in its NovoRapid Internet Inspiration Initiative. The three winners – an Israeli graphic designer, an Australian nurse, and a Danish physician – will each receive a prize of $20,000. Each has […]
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Merckmedco.com, the Billion Dollar Online Pharmacy
Despite deepening economic gloom on both sides of the Atlantic, US online pharmacy Merckmedco.com has announced that it has reached a business milestone, becoming the first Internet-based pharmacy to achieve $1 billion in sales. Significantly, Merckmedco.com was never dotcom newcomer but instead an imaginative extension of the leading US pharmacy benefit management firm Merck-Medco – […]
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Motion Media Launches Video Phone for Health Sector
Bristol-based Motion Media has launched the first video phone specifically designed for the healthcare sector and remote delivery of patient care into the home that operates over a standard phone line. The company claims its new CareStation 125 video phone will help health organisations deliver the Government goal of redesigning health services around the patient […]
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NHS Signs Landmark National Software Deal With Microsoft
The NHS has completed a three-year corporate software licensing deal with Microsoft Ltd, which will see all NHS computer users get access to the latest Microsoft software and potentially save the NHS £50m. The new "NHS Enterprise Agreement", which has immediate effect, will dramatically rationalise the NHS’s previously fragmented purchasing of Microsoft products. Senior NHS […]
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Pfizer Health Solutions Launches InformaCare
Pfizer Health Solutions Inc (PHS), the clinical informatics subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., has launched an advanced secure Internet-based disease management software package designed to enhance communications between US patients and healthcare professionals. The new system, called InformaCare, provides individualised treatment recommendations delivered over the Internet to help hospital and physician organisations better manage the care […]
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WebMD and Quintiles Plan Further Legal Action on Data Dispute
Settlement talks on a disputed health data rights agreement between Quintiles Transnational Corp., the international healthcare informatics firm, and e-health pioneer WebMD have broken down, with both companies announcing they plan further legal action. WebMD claims that the data rights agreement raises vital constitutional and legal issues about the collection and use of sensitive patient […]
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