Health

Archive
8 November 2005

IT vital for sustainable health systems, says PwC

Healthcare systems will need a ‘digital backbone’ to remain sustainable in the face of increasing demand, rising costs, uneven quality
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31 October 2005

Scotland opts for national electronic health records

The Scottish Executive has announced that they are to follow the recommendations of the Kerr Report and implement a national system
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27 October 2005

Bavaria launches patient-controlled health records

The German Patient-Partner Association (PPV), a health provider network, and the German statutory health insurance organisation AOK Bavaria are to
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19 October 2005

U-turn on whether health info sites beneficial

The authors of a study that concluded information websites for patient with long-term conditions were detrimental to health have retracted
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14 October 2005

Ending the ‘rough ride’ for health informaticians

People who choose to work in health informatics have had a ‘fairly rough ride’ with no obvious career pathways and
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7 October 2005

Ireland suspends two national health IT projects

The Irish Health Service Executive (IHSE) has announced that it is to stop the development of two controversial new health service
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12 September 2005

Review of Connecting for Health imminent

Gordon Hextall, chief operating officer of NHS Connecting for Health has revealed that a review of the NHS National Programme
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11 August 2005

Course offers fast track to health fundamentals

A short course offering a rapid induction into the world of healthcare and the NHS has been designed by the
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21 July 2005

Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’

The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used
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19 July 2005

IPPR calls for electronic health record education

  The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called for the introduction of IT training for socially excluded sections
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