Clinician
14 Stories
When IT and healthcare come together
Insight CIO 1-1 SingHealth's Dr. Low Cheng Ooi shares his views on how IT and healthcare are colliding to bring forth the future of medicine for patients and practitioners.
Tags: IT project management, Data Management, Leadership, Technology, Clinician, EMR, globalization, analytics, information technology company, chairman
S'pore e-health records roadmap 'pragmatic'
News Singapore and other Asian countries have ingredients for successful implementation of e-healthcare services, say executives from GE Healthcare.
Tags: Data Management, Local Government, Regulations, GE Healthcare, General Electric Co., E-health, Asia-Pacific, Spokesperson, Singapore, electronic health record
A way to a services culture
Insight Prevention is better than cure--service-oriented architecture (SOA) helps reduce bottlenecks and raise service levels.
Tags: Web services, Service level management, XML
NSW health IT gets US$460M injection
News New South Wales special commissioner Peter Garling has prescribed a "one-off injection" to remedy a system bogged down by, among other things, paper and technical inadequacies.
Tags: Web sites, Business broadband, Database management, Privacy, Clinician, E-health, electronic health record, Broadband, electronic record, investment strategy
Healthcare IT at work
Insight Asia's healthcare sector have tech options, ranging from electronic medical records to RFID tags for contact tracing.
Tags: RFID, Mobile/Wireless
Motion Computing C5: the first Mobile Clinical Assistant
Reviews Motion Computing’s C5 is a Tablet PC designed specifically with clinicians in mind. We made an appointment with it at CeBIT 2007.
S'pore hospital to use tablet-like PC
News New mobile device promises to improve patient care at a Singapore hospital, the first in the world to use it in an Accident and Emergency environment.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Mobile/Wireless, RFID, Development/design, Network infrastructure, Mobile
Singapore hospital boosts bedside care
News Singapore General Hospital installs touchscreen systems at inpatient wards, making it easier for doctors to access medical information and patients to access the Internet.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Wireless e-mail devices, Monitors and displays
IBM joins effort to prevent pandemics
News Big Blue works with health organizations to save lives by learning how to curb the spread of infectious diseases.
Tags: Data backup, disaster recovery, Business applications
NHS completes Pacs digital x-ray project
News The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) has completed a project to rollout digital x-ray and scanning technology to health trusts across the country.
Tags: Regulations, Services, Customer resource management (CRM)
Healthcare needs common standards
News Common standards help medical institutions share patient information, a necessary step in the evolution of healthcare delivery, experts say.
Tags: Standards, Data Management, XML
Australian surgeons get virtually touchy-feely
News Software that lets surgeons feel simulated body organs in virtual space is set to revolutionise the way medical professionals are trained in Australia.
Fujitsu ditches US$1.77B NHS IT contract
News Company walks away from a billion dollar contract over much dispute in the amount needed to revamp UK's health IT system.
Tags: Negotiation, Budgeting/cost control, Infrastructure/architecture management, Vendor selection, British Telecommunications, Accenture Ltd., Cerner Corp., payment, software, Silicon.com
Intel unveils prototypes for doctors, health care
News Chipmaker shows off concepts and prototypes of future computers for use by doctors, nurses and patients.
Tags: Hardware, Components, Processors, Personal Computers
