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14 August 2008

Canada’s Infoway says 254 EHR projects underway

Canada’s electronic health record projects have quadrupled since 2004, according to the head of the Canadian health IT agency. Investment
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29 July 2008

Open eHealth Foundation sets out priorities

The Open eHealth Foundation (OeHF), an open source initiative for improving the exchange of medical information using existing standards, has
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11 July 2008

Alcatel-Lucent launches LifeStat

French telecomms giant Alcatel-Lucent has announced the launch outside Canada of LifeStat Remote Monitoring and Health Management, a telemedicine service
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6 May 2008

European firms sign global e-health deals

Two large European e-health suppliers have announced new deals to conduct healthcare work internationally, in the last month. Netherlands based
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18 April 2008

NHS CfH joins open source health collaboration

Open Health Tools has announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies
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7 April 2008

Map of Medicine sold to Hearst Corporation

Map of Medicine, the provider of web-based patient pathways tool developed from an NHS-funded research project and widely installed across
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24 October 2007

Clinical process improvement drives EMR use

The need to improve clinical processes and workflow efficiency in healthcare is driving more healthcare organisations to look positively at
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18 October 2007

The XDS factor

Interest is growing in Cross Enterprise Document Sharing as a system for storing and transmitting clinical data. Nick Brown and
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3 May 2007

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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22 February 2007

New post-Shipman information guidelines issued

The government has released new guidelines on the use of information to ensure NHS organisations have systems and processes in
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