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Patient records system failure looms over CSC acquisition
It will be interesting to see what kind of fruit Computer Sciences Corporation's (CSC) recent acquisition of international healthcare software supplier iSOFT will bear in the U.S., after reports that
England moving away from national IT program
England's National Health Service is effectively ending the National Programme for IT, moving away from a centralized, national strategy for deploying IT to hospitals and clinics across the country
iSoft CEO quits following major losses
Following big corporate losses for the fiscal year that ended June 30, Gary Cohen has stepped down as CEO of Australia-based global health IT vendor iSoft Group. iSoft posted a loss of 383 million
SPOTLIGHT: British EMR system rollout faces long delays
It's looking like Britain's National Health Service will face some very long delays in rolling out its planned nationwide EMR system, which will serve 50 million patients and link more than 30,000
ALSO NOTED: Hospitals run "eICUs";Disease monitoring with mobile devices; and much more...
> Trend: Hospitals are increasingly using remote physicians to monitor critical patients in ICUs.
Microsoft releases no-cost UI toolkit for healthcare apps
Microsoft extended itself a bit further into the healthcare IT marketplace this week, with the release of a new set tools designed to help developers create user interfaces for healthcare apps. The
ALSO NOTED: Private sector leads public sector for EMRs; U of California rolls out mobile clinical assistant; and much more...
> Apparently, private sector healthcare organizations are way ahead of the public sector when it comes to implementing EMRs. Article
> Nurses at the University of California San Francisco will be among the first to use Intel's new mobile clinical assistant, a tablet-like PC retailing for just over $2,000. …
ALSO NOTED: Kentucky builds doctor portal; New standard pipes lab info to EMRs; and much more...
> CMS has given the state of Kentucky a $4.9 million grant to build a portal making patient information accessible to doctors. Article
> A new standard is emerging for piping laboratory information system results to EMRs. Article
> If you don't have a strong mobile security policy in place--one …
Anatomy of a health IT disaster
In 2002, officials with the U.K.'s National Health Service budgeted $12 billion for a massive overhaul of its IT infrastructure. The project was inspired in part by Bill Gates, who met with Prime Minister Tony Blair and updated him on the progress of health IT technology. The resulting initiative, the National Program for Information Technology (NpfIT) is a 10-year project designed to connect more than 100,000 doctors, 380,000 nurses and 50,000 other healthcare professionals to a shared …
ALSO NOTED: Kaiser whistleblower speaks; New rules boost EMR adoption; and much more...
> So how much downtime did Kaiser's Epic EMR actually experience? To what extent was KP's Citrix infrastructure to blame? Check out this interview with Justen Deal--and some very lively follow-up commentary--to learn more. Blog
> If this Associated Press report …
