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15 June 2009

Finland establishes industry e-health centre

The Finnish health and welfare sector has established a strategic expertise centre (T&H SHOK) focused on improving health and well-being
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15 June 2009

UK telehealth trials missing minorities

Concerns have been raised that the UK’s biggest ever trial of telehealth technologies is excluding non-English speaking people, despite the
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11 June 2009

Canada hit by e-health scandal

The agency responsible for ehealth in Ontario has become the centre of a scandal involving uncompetitive contract awards, massive consultancy
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10 June 2009

US Hospital IT set to hit €5 billion

The value of the US hospital IT market is predicted to hit €5 billion annually within the next five years.
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10 June 2009

Bluetooth chosen as Continua standard

Continua Health Alliance has selected Bluetooth wireless technology as a key standard for its next set of design guidelines.
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9 June 2009

EMIS loads first SCRs

IT computer supplier EMIS has uploaded its first Summary Care Records to the Spine, as all six early adopter primary
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5 June 2009

Orebro first with Swedish summary record

InterSystems has announced that the first stage of the Swedish National Patient Summary Project has been successfully deployed.
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4 June 2009

CompuGroup wins Malaysian deal

German health IT firm CompuGroup has been chosen to implement a hospital information system (HIS) at the Bintulu Hospital in
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2 June 2009

Changing child health systems

A consortium of primary care and acute trusts in the south west discuss the implementation of McKesson’s Care Plus child
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1 June 2009

MHRA launches drug info debate

The UK’s medicines regulatory body has launched a consultation on the European Commission’s plans to change the rules on the
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