Decision support

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20 August 2003

Better Information Needed for Sexual Health Services

Services struggling to cope with Britain’s deteriorating sexual health could be helped by a new approach to performance management underpinned
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13 August 2003

Major Study of Healthcare IT Benefits Announced

A leading US policy think tank is to conduct a study to determine how much patient care could improve and
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12 August 2003

IBM and PatientKeeper Expand Wireless Health Collaboration

IBM and PatientKeeper, Inc. have announced an expansion of wireless capabilities to help hospitals enhance patient care, reduce medical errors,
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4 August 2003

US Institute Publishes Core Capabilities for EHRs

In a new report the independent Institute of Medicine (IOM), part of the US National Academies, has published a set
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24 July 2003

Tablet PC Vs PDA – The Debate Continues (Part 3)

Over the past month E-Health Insider readers have debated the relative merits of PDAs and Tablet PCs in healthcare. This
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8 July 2003

Major Grants to Develop ISABEL Decision Support Tool

Funding totalling £127,000 over three years has been awarded by the Department of Health to develop the ISABEL paediatric diagnosis
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20 June 2003

Safety Gains Available from IT

IT can substantially improve the safety of medical care but few of the technologies likely to achieve this are implemented,
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1 April 2003

eMatron – the Ultimate Nursing Boss

With no role out of bounds for the IT revolution, a US healthcare technology provider has devised electronic decision support
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12 February 2003

Lockheed Martin To Build Canadian Forces Health System

Lockheed Martin has won a CAN$17m (£6.8m) contract to build an advanced healthcare information system for the Canadian Forces. The
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19 December 2002

Multilex Announces Enhanced Sensitivity Checking

First DataBank Europe , the provider of point-of-care databases has launched Enhanced Sensitivity Checking as a new feature of its
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