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A year on from a Ministerial review that confirmed the importance of Summary Care Records in supporting urgent and emergency care, patient groups are advocating its use to improve care for the millions of people with long term conditions they...
HIMSS Analytics Europe has announced that the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in Germany has achieved Stage 7 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). It is the first hospital in Europe to achieve the top rating on...
On October 1 2011, Germany will begin the country-wide distribution of its new electronic health card. Morpho (Safran group) is the first manufacturer to have received official approval for production of the card. This was confirmed by gematik (...
Healthcare staff in prisons will be better placed to tackle the challenging health needs of prisoners as a result of a national prison healthcare IT system now installed in all prisons and young offender institutions across England.
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A new study, commissioned by Connecting for Health, and aimed at better understanding what prevents people from using information technology to help them manage their health and care, has found that many people have not heard of three major NHS...
IBM and over 20 major worldwide public health institutions, including the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced the Global Pandemic Initiative, a collaborative effort to help stem the spread of...
The Choose and Book programme has announced that it has reached a key milestone of 20 million patient referrals having been booked using the system.
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Every day over 30,000 patient referrals are made using Choose and Book, which...
