Electronic Health Record
15 Stories
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
E-medical record must be about business
News update Countries should manage deployment of electronic medical record systems like business projects, or risk having such plans being placed as low priority.
Tags: IT project management, Network administration/implementation, Database management, Databases, Conference, European Union, healthcare industry, patient medical record, Singapore, electronic health record
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
Tech giants line up for e-health dollars
News Allscripts, Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel, Intuit, Microsoft and Nuance Communications are banding together in an effort to make doctors aware of the benefits of electronic health records.
Tags: Digital media, E-health, Tool, electronic health record, Cerner Corp., Nuance, Digital media, U.S. President Barack Obama, speech recognition, alliance
New privacy guidelines for US e-health records
News As U.S. president-elect Barack Obama calls for widespread adoption of e-medical records, the Department of Health and Human Services is offering more privacy guidelines for them.
Tags: Privacy, Data security, Security Management, Service level management, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, E-health, electronic health record, personal health information, accountability, Mike Leavitt
Wireless industry wants in on US healthcare stimulus money
News Wireless industry is hoping it can reap the rewards of billions of dollars being spent on health care technology as part of the economic stimulus package.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Wireless LANs, Handhelds, Cisco Systems Inc., wireless industry, Wireless, electronic health record, electronic record, Wireless LANs, Hospital
Patient privacy in peril?
News New U.S. legislation urging doctors and hospitals to keep electronic, rather than paper, health records may not go far enough in shielding sensitive information.
Tags: Privacy, Insurance Company, Privacy, medical record, public health, Record, electronic health record, insurance, Washington, health insurance
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
US healthcare experts warn of IT adoption challenges
News Health care providers and other experts challenge U.S. President Barack Obama's assertion that implementing the use of electronic medical records will be easily implemented.
Tags: Business applications, Data Management, Data security, Security Management, healthcare reform, electronic health record, health industry, health care company, network, data management
National medical archive to be online in May
News The country's long-awaited electronic health record archives where patients' files could be accessed over the Web, is expected to be ready in a simplified form in May.
Bill would give US president emergency control of Internet
News Critics question revised proposal from U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller to let the White House do what it deems necessary to respond to a "cybersecurity emergency".
Tags: Web sites, Cybersecurity, U.S. Senate, computer, aide, White House, Electronic Frontier Foundation, network, Internet, president
Experts: US Homeland Security needs fresh ideas on cybersecurity
News A successful public-private partnership to combat cyberthreats will require more trust and forward-looking ideas, policy experts say referring to Homeland Security.
Tags: Hacking, Firewalls, Web 2.0, Security, Cybersecurity, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, cyberthreats, accountability, DHS Cybersecurity Initiative, Marc Rotenberg
Tech sector suggests role of CTO in US administration
News U.S. President-elect Barack Obama should make his chief technology officer part of his economic policy team because IT is increasingly integral to good governance, says industry.
Tags: Network security, Infrastructure/architecture management, Federal Government, Regulations, Cybersecurity, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Business Software Alliance, Information Security, Tech Sector, Health IT
IBM expands free access to patents
News The effort expands IBM's previous moves to open a portion of its patent pool to the open-source community.
Tags: Open source, Patents
Healthcare must step up IT adoption
News Industry should pick up the pace and adopt the latest technologies to provide better quality patient care, industry experts say at inaugural Asia-Pacific event.
Tags: Web sites, Data Management, Databases
