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SPOTLIGHT: British EMR system rollout faces long delays

May 27, 2008 — 6:59am ET
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... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Hospitals run "eICUs";Disease monitoring with mobile devices; and much more...

October 8, 2007 — 6:59am ET
> Trend: Hospitals are increasingly using remote physicians to monitor critical patients in ICUs. Read more...

Microsoft releases no-cost UI toolkit for healthcare apps

September 17, 2007 — 6:59am ET
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... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Private sector leads public sector for EMRs; U of California rolls out mobile clinical assistant; and much more...

February 25, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

> 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. …

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ALSO NOTED: Kentucky builds doctor portal; New standard pipes lab info to EMRs; and much more...

February 11, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

> 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 …

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Anatomy of a health IT disaster

November 19, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

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 …

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ALSO NOTED: Kaiser whistleblower speaks; New rules boost EMR adoption; and much more...

November 19, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

> 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

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ALSO NOTED: NHS switches health admin systems; Health IT jobs still available; and much more...

November 12, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

> Britain's National Health Service has completed its planned switch from IDX to Cerner hospital administration systems. The move was prompted by IDX development delays. Article

> Don't believe the hype about tech outsourcing. The number of U.S. IT jobs is growing, not shrinking, especially in sectors like healthcare. …

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