17 April 2013

Kelsey hails breakthrough for care.data

Tim Kelsey, the national director of patients and information, has claimed a breakthrough in linking-up data flows between secondary and
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17 April 2013

New records standards body launched

A major new Professional Records Standards Body has been launched to promote the development of health and care records based
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14 March 2013

Physician heal thyself

Dr Lawrence Weed, leading champion of health IT for 50 years, says the practice of medicine remains unscientific because knowledge
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12 March 2013

Healthcare needs to be more like Walmart

Healthcare providers need to become more like Amazon and Walmart and use technology to far better understand patients and help
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11 March 2013

Cerner and TPP show NHS Blue Button

The NHS looks set to copy the hugely successful US Blue Button initiative, which enables patients to very easily download
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8 March 2013

Interoperability tops bill in Big Easy

Interoperability proved the favorite topic for the US health IT industry gathered in New Orleans this week for the annual
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6 March 2013

Cerner and McKesson join US alliance

Six heavyweight electronic medical records vendors have announced plans to develop common interoperability standards to create a new national set
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5 March 2013

US hospitals making progress on EMRs

US hospital IT leaders report strong progress towards electronic medical records, with two thirds saying they have achieved the first
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14 February 2013

Trusts could lose contracts without EPR

The NHS Commissioning Board is drawing up plans designed to dramatically accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records by NHS
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22 January 2013

Athenahealth buys Epocrates for $293m

US cloud-based patient record specialist Athenahealth has purchased Eprocrates, a provider of mobile drug reference apps, for $293m (£185m).
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