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17 February 2011

Smartphone based ultrasound gets FDA go

A smartphone based ultrasound imaging system has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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14 February 2011

Canada commits £239m to EMR investment

Canadian ehealth body Health Infoway is to invest £239m to fund electronic medical record systems in community-based practices and outpatient
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4 March 2010

‘Stop knocking progress’ on EMRs

Coverage from HIMSS10 Dave Garrets, the head of HIMSS Analytics, has said that reports criticising the lack progress being made
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2 March 2010

Interoperable EMRs still top US priority

Coverage from HIMSS10 In the annual survey of chief information officers run by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, achiving
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1 March 2010

HIMSS opens with gold rush in prospect

An 25,000-strong army of healthcare IT professionals has descended on Atlanta for the HIMSS 2010 conference and exhibition expecting a
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1 March 2010

Boomers lead on personal health records

Personal health records have become a reality for millions of Americans, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference
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8 February 2010

IBM to acquire Initiate Systems

IBM has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Initiate Systems for an undisclosed sum. Initiate is best known
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28 January 2010

First European deal for HealthVault

Microsoft and Siemens have signed an agreement to licence Microsoft’s personal health record platform, HealthVault, in Germany.
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5 January 2010

US publishes ‘meaningful use’ criteria

The first draft criteria for the federal funding of electronic health records as part of the US’ recovery plans have been published. The
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4 January 2010

Tech vital to medication adherence

Information technology has a vital role to lay in cutting medication-related errors and improving medication adherence among older people, suggests
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