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Mckesson Declares Quarterly Dividend October 30, 2009
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Source: McKesson News - October 30, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: organizations
GPS tracking system unveiled for Alzheimer's patientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Alzheimer's Association has unveiled a Web-based application that allows Alzheimer's patients to roam within a pre-established area. If they leave that area, a GPS tracking system alerts loved ones or caregivers who can then locate them.
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - October 30, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Ovid to Distribute Royal Society of Chemistry EbooksEmail this article to a colleague.
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Ovid, a division of Wolters Kluwer, reached an agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry for digital access to a number of its publications.
Source: EContent RSS Feeds : Research Center: Sci-Tech/Medical - October 30, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Mining of clinical and biomedical text and data: Editorial of the special issueEmail this article to a colleague.
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To cope with the amounts of documentation in health care and bio-medical research, the traditional intermediaries used by practitioners include, for example, summaries, code lists, and rulebooks. The new intermediaries enabled by text and data mining may encompass, for example, code suggestions assigned by text classification tools, rankings produced by information retrieval tools, pre-completed forms filled by information extraction tools, as well as structured free-text notes generated by topic segmentation and labelling tools. Under time constraints, they can help focus on essential items in large sets of data and text....
Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics - October 30, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Helena Karsten, Hanna Suominen Tags: Editorial Source Type: journals
New GE eHealth Business Better Connects Patients, Hospitals, Doctors to Critical InformationEmail this article to a colleague.
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GE Healthcare announced the launch of eHealth, a new business unit offering enhanced connectivity to clinicians and patients designed with data privacy and security features to enable health information sharing that can help increase efficiency, reduce error and improve health outcomes.
Source: eHealth News EU - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Industry News Source Type: info
Philips Led HYPERImage Project Advances Research on Hybrid PET/MR ScannerEmail this article to a colleague.
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As leader of the European Union funded HYPERImage research project, Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) announced that the project has achieved a major milestone in its ambitious plan to create a new medical imaging technique called hybrid PET/MR.
Source: eHealth News EU - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Research News Source Type: info
Emaar Healthcare uses IT to increase time spent with patientEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Emaar Healthcare Group, the healthcare subsidiary of Dubai-based Emaar Properties, has deployed a new health information system aimed at reducing the amount of time doctors spend on documentation.
Research shows that doctors use up to 60 per cent of their working hours engaged in documentation, thereby keeping them from their patients, said Emaar Healthcare officials. Over the past two months, Emaar Healthcare has been working with Pragmedic Solutions, a Dubai- and U.S.-based vendor, to implement the HIS.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Dubai Emaar Healthcare Group Emaar Properties International Kashif Haqqi Kyle Hardy Pragmedic Solutions The Emaar Healthcare Group Source Type: news
Rogan-Delft Approves Matrox Xenia Series for Use With Zillion SuiteEmail this article to a colleague.
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Matrox Graphics Inc., a manufacturer of specialized graphics solutions, announced that Rogan-Delft has validated the Matrox Xenia display controller boards with the Zillion suite for radiology workstations. The software suite contains a number of products integrating all aspects of the radiological workflow, including Radiology Information System, Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), and Cross Enterprise Document Sharing solutions. Rogan-Delft will be demonstrating Zillion suite with the Xenia Series boards at RSNA 2009
Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Industry News Release Tags: graphics solutions International Matrox Graphics Inc. Menno Timmer Montreal Source Type: news
CalOptima recovers discs with personal data on 68,000 membersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Several missing CDs with unencrypted personal data on 68,000 members of the CalOptima managed care plan have been traced to a secure postal facility in Atlanta.
Source: Computerworld Health Care News - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Harvard releases Swine Flu iPhone appEmail this article to a colleague.
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An H1N1 flu iPhone application has been unveiled by the Harvard Health Publications Division of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
San Francisco 'Healthcare Stimulus Exchange' ConferenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Healthcare IT News Events - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: jenna Tags: Industry News San Francisco United States West Coast Editorial & Commentary Hospitals IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Payers Source Type: events
Reboot 29.10.2009Email this article to a colleague.
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Hello and welcome to reboot, E-Health Insider's look at the lighter side of life in healthcare technology. We'd love to see your own diary items, media spots and appointments news. All contributions gratefully received: email Lyn Whitfield.
Source: E-Health Insider Opinion And Analysis - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
GE Healthcare to track H1N1 for CDCEmail this article to a colleague.
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GE Healthcare has been selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide surveillance data for H1N1 and seasonal flu activity throughout the nation.
According to GE officials, the Barrington, Ill.-based company will report daily to the CDC with information gathered from its Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) database of nearly 14 million patient records. This will help the CDC better understand the characteristics of H1N1 outbreaks and determine trends.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only Barrington Centers for Disease Control and Prevention H1N1 Industry News Physician Practices & Ambulatory Care Source Type: news
Atlanta hospital looks to track valuable equipment with new RFID solutionEmail this article to a colleague.
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St. Joseph’s Hospital has finished deploying a new asset tracking solution to manage its high-value specialty equipment.
By leveraging Littleton, Mass.-based WaveMark’s CIMS hospital inventory management solution, officials at the Atlanta hospital expect to be able to track expensive specialty equipment and physician preference solutions in the cardiac cath and electrophysiology labs.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Atlanta Kyle Hardy Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
Toolkit to nail interoperability - JonesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The new NHS interoperability toolkit has the potential to drive down the cost of interoperability and innovation, according to the Department of Health's chief technology officer.
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Premier initiative looks to data, analytics to boost patient outcomesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Premier healthcare alliance has launched a new technology and consulting program to bridge the gap between clinical and business processes in hospitals.
Premier Consulting Solutions' (PCS) ProviderConnect is designed to help hospitals and health systems improve quality and outcomes, control costs and increase profitability. The program makes it possible to view their organization's future through the lens of a physician to ensure effective and optimal collaborative relationships, according to officials.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Called Premier Consulting Solutions Charlotte Lynette Wheeler PCS Hospitals & IDNs Source Type: news
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Mike Palmer, a project officer in the ICT for Health Unit of the Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate-General in Brussels, will be speaking at E-Health Insider Live '09.
Source: E-Health Europe Opinion And Analysis - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Bury misses early planning go-liveEmail this article to a colleague.
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NHS Bury has failed to meet its early planning go-live date for Lorenzo Regional Care (Release 1.9).
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
HIMSS acquires Medical Banking ProjectEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has acquired the Nashville-based Medical Banking Project, moving the Chicago-based healthcare IT professional society more broadly into healthcare finance and administration.
HIMSS President and CEO Stephen Lieber and Medical Banking Project founder John Casillas made a joint announcement of the acquisition Thursday and revealed that Casillas will join HIMSS as a senior vice president managing the medical banking content area.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Richard Pizzi Tags: Online Only banking Chicago finance HIMSS Industry News John Casillas Management Systems Society Medical Banking Project Nashville Stephen Lieber Source Type: news
One Health Alliance gains new membersEmail this article to a colleague.
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One Health Alliance, the 'best of breed' healthcare IT alliance aimed at delivering technology and information to both public and private sector organisations, has added two new members, Sunquest information systems and BridgeHead software.
Source: E-Health Europe News - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Great Western integrates with EnsembleEmail this article to a colleague.
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Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with InterSystems' Ensemble three months after it began implementing the platform.
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Department of Health publishes criteria for successful introduction of Electronic Patient RecordsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Department of Health has published criteria for suppliers to successfully introduce information systems into hospitals which will enable electronic patient records.
Source: NHS Connecting for Health - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: siro Source Type: organizations
Cash-only patients name their price on doctor fee search websiteEmail this article to a colleague.
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After a successful pilot program in the Seattle area, a website that matches cash-paying patients to
healthcare providers is slated to launch nationwide on November 2.
Source: Medical Economics - Technology - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: journals
Invitation to Participate at the 2010 Interoperability ShowcaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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At the 2010 World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition (WoHIT), taking place during 2010 eHealth week (March 15-18, 2010), a new approach is being investigated for the Interoperability Showcase. Besides the demonstration of the interoperability of commercial products, the 2010 Interoperability Showcase is aiming at displaying IHE-based EPR projects in Europe.
Source: eHealth News EU - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: News - Conferences News Source Type: info
Florida tests PHR pilot for Medicaid recipientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Officials from Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration tested a free personal health record for the state's 2.6 million Medicaid recipients on Wednesday.
The agency previewed the first phase of Florida's Internet-based PHR called My Florida Health eBook and My Florida eBaby Book. In the first phase of the pilot Medicaid recipients will be able to track information about their healthcare visits, procedures, medications, immunizations, allergies and more.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Molly Merrill Tags: Online Only Agency for Health Care electronic health record Florida Florida Medicaid Industry News Tallahassee Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
Grassley probes 10 health IT companies about softwareEmail this article to a colleague.
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Ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, has sent a letter to 10 health IT companies requesting consumer complant information about their health IT products.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Small providers present health IT implementation concerns to Policy CommitteeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Although meaningful use standards for EHRs should help improve patient care within community health centers, many barriers remain in place for smaller providers to adopt this technology, according to representatives of these facilities who spoke at yesterday's meeting of the HIT Policy Committee.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Study: EHR adoption encouraged for providers serving the poorEmail this article to a colleague.
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According to a study published online Oct. 26 in Health Affairs, EHR adoption by hospitals that serve a large population of poor patients should be a major policy goal of health reform measures.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
QuadraMed scores four new EHR clientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Healthcare technology developer QuadraMed has announced that three health systems in the U.S., and one Toronto-based healthcare organization have licensed its EHR product, QuadraMed CPR.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Perot Systems partners with China TelecomEmail this article to a colleague.
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Perot Systems and China Telecom have formed a partnership to generate IT solutions for the healthcare industry in China.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Jordan showcases its "Hakeem" healthcare pilotEmail this article to a colleague.
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A public demonstration of "Hakeem," Jordan's National E-Health Program, was made at the Prince Hamzah Hospital on Tuesday.
The demonstration, part of the nation's pilot healthcare transformation program that was announced in December 2008, showcased the hospital's use of its VistA open source clinical and healthcare information management system and computerized patient record system (CPRS).
Hakeem is managed by the Jordanian non-profit Electronic Health Solutions, with technology implementation and integration provided by Plano, Texas-based Perot Systems.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Molly Merrill Tags: Online Only Amman Electronic Health Solutions Hamzah Hospital International Jordan Kevin Fickenscher Microsoft Vista Perot Systems Perot Systems Corp. Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
Providers skeptical of meaningful use reimbursement processEmail this article to a colleague.
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Healthcare providers should be gearing up for reimbursements for meaningful use of healthcare data under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), but many argue that healthcare IT adoption may not be worth the effort.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Diana Manos Tags: Online Only David Blumenthal drug allergy Industry News information technology Marty Fattig Medicare Washington Hospitals & IDNs Physician Practices Ambulatory Care Source Type: news
SNOMED-compliant e-prescribing in new ALERT and First DataBank partnershipEmail this article to a colleague.
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SNOMED-compliant electronic prescribing will be rolled out at CircleBath Hospital in a new contract announced between First DataBank (FDB) and ALERT Life Sciences Computing (ALERT)
Source: Hospital IT Europe - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Protomed summit puts medication management under the microscopeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Pharmaceutical design specialist Protomed has brought together key figures from the pharma, healthcare and pharmacy arenas to debate the future of medication management
Source: Hospital IT Europe - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Hospital de Denia in Spain is the first to implement Cerner's EMR systemEmail this article to a colleague.
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First Cerner Millennium Implementation in Spain Automates Clinician Documentation and Processes Throughout the Hospital
Source: Hospital IT Europe - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Great Ormond Street Hospital leads the way with hospital wide roll out of EPMA systemEmail this article to a colleague.
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GOSH NHS Trust has become the first specialist paediatric hospital in the UK to complete a Trust-wide roll out of the Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system
Source: Hospital IT Europe - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Jan Yperman Hospital improve care and efficiencyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Jan Yperman hospital has introduced Wi-Fi-based solutions from AeroScout to improve patient care, accessibility of equipment and the safety of staff
Source: Hospital IT Europe - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Hospital St Louis uses Wi-Fi-based healthcare visibility solutionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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New technology has improved security, efficiency and patient care at Hospital St Louis, Ettelbruck
Source: Hospital IT Europe - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
HHS Breach Notification Rules Again Under FireEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Center for Democracy and Technology is the latest to find fault with the Department of Health and Human Services' data breach rules for personal health records. Under the current interim rules health care organizations that use encryption or destruction, no breach notification is necessary, but for those who don't, the health organization makes the call on whether the breach is harmful enough to trigger a breach notification. - The Department of Health and Human Services should replace its
controversial harm standard for triggering a personal health record
data breach notification with a risk assessment approach that ...
Source: eWeek Health Care - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: info
Report: Health IT central to healthcare debateEmail this article to a colleague.
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Health IT is taking a central role in the current healthcare debate, according to a report published by the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, George Washington University Medical Center and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Dallas hospital looks to improve patient-physician communicationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Parkland Health and Hospital System is deploying new phones in an effort to break down language barriers.
At least 77 languages have been spoken by patients seeking medical services from the 990-bed, Dallas-based hospital so far this year, said Deborah Moore, director of patient relations for Parkland Health. In addition, the hospital has experienced a 40 percent increase in demand for interpretation services over the past two years.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Kyle Hardy Tags: Online Only Dallas Deborah Moore Kyle Hardy Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
RelayHealth launches HIPAA 5010 testing program for payersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Health plans worried about the costs involved in switching to the ANSA X12 version of HIPAA 5010 compliance services now have a new testing tool at their disposal.
RelayHealth, the connectivity subsidiary of Atlanta-based McKesson, has announced the availability of its TestTrack5010 solution to payers. The Web-based tool allows health plans to test the processing of HIPAA 5010 medical claims, eligibility and other transactions using their own production data.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Staff Tags: Online Only Atlanta Industry News McKesson RelayHealth Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
El Camino Hospital puts the focus on Web performanceEmail this article to a colleague.
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El Camino Hospital in California's Silicon Valley will monitor the performance of its Web applications with new technology that measures from the outside in.
The Mountain View, Calif. hospital has deployed technology from Lexington, Mass.-based Gomez to ensure the performance and availability of applications on its public Web site and physician application site.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only California Camino Hospital El Camino Gomez Lexington Massachusetts Mountain View Hospitals & IDNs Vendors Source Type: news
Settlement money to help create new reimbursement databaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Thanks to almost $100 million in settlement proceeds from health insurers, a new reimbursement database for out-of-network healthcare charges is being developed in New York.
Source: Healthcare IT News - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Authors: Molly Merrill Tags: Online Only Andrew M. Cuomo BUFFALO Cornell University FAIR Health Inc. Industry News New York State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo Syracuse Syracuse University University of Rochester Payers Source Type: news
Despite Q2 income dip, McKesson raises year-end outlookEmail this article to a colleague.
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McKesson has reported decreased income, despite increased revenues for the 2010 fiscal second quarter, which ended Sept. 30.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
RSNA: DR Systems to unveil cloud computing technology to share imagesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Healthcare information systems provider DR Systems (Booth #6229) is unveiling eMix, its cloud-based technology for sharing imaging studies and reports, at RSNA 2009.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Trust loses cancer patient dataEmail this article to a colleague.
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Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust has been criticised by the Information Commissioner for losing three unencrypted USB sticks containing sensitive information about cancer patients.
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
California e-prescribing initiative launchedEmail this article to a colleague.
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The California E-Prescribing Consortium has recently been launched to improve patient safety and care through the adoption of e-prescribing technology.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Vangent releases HIE software toolEmail this article to a colleague.
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Vangent is releasing an open-source software tool, known as Health Information Exchange Open Source, for the secure exchange of health information from multiple and disparate system and data sources.
Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
