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Feds asked to clarify e-health
THE federal Government's ongoing commitment to HealthConnect has been called into question as money pours into a national standards body rather than the planned shared electronic health record system.
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Source: Australian IT, Australia
Posted: Monday, March 06, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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VA RECEIVES AWARD FOR ELECTRONIC FILE SHARING
The Department of Veterans Affairs collaboration with the Department of Defense to share electronic medical records for patients receiving care from both departments has earned VA recognition.
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Source: FedNews-Online, US
Posted: Monday, March 06, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Listening to patients helps develop the new NHS Care Records Service
Getting people more involved in their own health and care is Marlene Winfield’s driving ambition, and she believes NHS Connecting for Health is a major step forward.
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Source: eGov monitor, UK
Posted: Monday, March 06, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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ANS wins big NHS contract
Novell Platinum VAR Associated Network Solutions (ANS) has won a network migration contract valued at £200,000 from North Cumbria Health Community, to consolidate its file, print and email services for the entire NHS region.
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Source: Computing, UK
Posted: Monday, March 06, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Vendor Inks Image Management Deal
Harrisburg, Pa.-based PinnacleHealth has outsourced storage and retrieval management of its film-based X-rays to Iron Mountain Inc., Boston. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Monday, March 06, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Unibased Enters Consulting Field
Unibased Systems Architecture Inc., a vendor of enterprisewide scheduling and surgery management software for provider organizations, has launched an executive consulting division. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Monday, March 06, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Flying ICUs save lives
The Air Force has converted a group of C-17s, which fly weekly medical evacuation missions from here to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, into flying ICUs that provide the same technology on an aircraft that is available in any hospital intensive care unit.
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Source: Government Health IT, US
Posted: Monday, March 06, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Long Relationship Pays for McKesson
Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla., will implement a suite of clinical and ancillary software from McKesson Corp., San Francisco. The hospital has used the vendor's STAR hospital information system since 1989. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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PDA Trials App Accepts Glucose Data
Pittsburgh-based invivodata inc. has announced its handheld clinical trials application can accept data from blood glucose meters. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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App Eases CPOE Construction
Drug information content vendor First DataBank has introduced software to ease the design and use of computerized physician order entry systems. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Survey: Misdiagnosis tops error list
Misdiagnosis tops the list of medical mistakes that patients say they’ve experienced, according to a recent survey of a little more than 2,000 U.S. respondents.
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Source: Healthcare IT News, US
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Bill would give feds EHRs
Rep. Jon Porter (R-Nev.), will introduce a bill today to make the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) a leader in the use of electronic health records.
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Source: Government Health IT, US
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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House Republicans introduce innovation act
House Republicans have introduced legislation aimed at increasing innovation in industry and the health care system, but opponents say the plan fails to address major impediments to the nation's competitiveness.
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Source: Government Health IT, US
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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French learn how to do IT from NHS
French health service IT chiefs have been on a fact-finding mission to pick up tips from NHS technology executives. Managers from the French electronic health record institute met NHS IT director general, Richard Granger, and their day's tour included sessions on system procurement and the technical approach to the UK's massive health service technology improvement programme.
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Source: Silicon.com, UK
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Senate wants state involved in health-care IT partnership
A bill passed by the Wisconsin Senate attempts to unite public and private interests in a new effort to improve health care in the state using information technology.
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Source: WTN News, US
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Computer scientist sorts out confusable drug names
Was that Xanex or Xanax? Or maybe Zantac? If you’re a health care professional you’d better know the difference--mistakes can be fatal.
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Source: innovations report, Germany
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Guide Smoothes the Path to CPOE Implementation
Computerized physician order entry long has been touted as a technology that could transform the health care system through improved efficiency and accuracy. However, if CPOE is such a promising technology, why have adoption rates remained so low?
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Source: iHealth Beat, US
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Four Leave Providence After ID Theft
Following an investigation into the theft of disks and tapes containing information on 365,000 home health patients, Providence Health System has fired one employee and accepted the resignations of three others. ... Comments (0)
Source: Health Data Management, US
Posted: Friday, March 03, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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HealthConnect under the microscope
The future of HealthConnect and concerns over the federal Government's fading commitment to the nationwide electronic health record program will be thrashed out tomorrow at a meeting of the Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council.
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Source: Australian IT, Australia
Posted: Thursday, March 02, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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Technology to improve care at the bedside and beyond
Much has been written about the enormous effort required to take scientific discovery from the laboratory bench to the patient’s bedside. In the Supplement to the February issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Brad Doebbeling, M.D., M.Sc., and colleagues offer strategy on how best to take the next step, to use technology to incorporate new or better treatments at the bedsides of patients treated anywhere.
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Source: innovations report, Germany
Posted: Thursday, March 02, 2006 by Obi Igbokwe - View more news posts by Obi Igbokwe
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