Medical Record
85 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
Citrix lends support for Special Olympics
News Thin client vendor sponsors technology that enables games results and athletes' medical records to be accessible anywhere and on any device.
US Defense Department to partially lift flash drive ban
News Authorized individuals will be able to use USB thumb drives that are owned by the government and necessary for mission-critical functions, U.S. Navy CIO says.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, U.S. Department Of Defense, Malware, network, Chief Information Officer, Authentication and encryption, USB Flash Drive, medical record
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
3 Questions: Putting a lid on personal Web use
Insight A COO of a medical practice talks about why he uses an enterprise Internet access management application called WebSense.
S'pore takes a shot at sharing e-medical data
News Government plans to implement an electronic medical record system to securely share consolidated data with doctors in public and private practice.
Tags: Data Management, Databases, Privacy, Local Government
S'pore casts e-medical sharing net wider
News Community hospitals in the country join public hospitals and government medical agencies, to gain access to a common system for patient records.
Tags: Software integration, Business applications, Infrastructure/architecture management
Commentary: Complex privacy issues demand enforcement
News A privacy audit by a Big Five accounting firm is a nice marketing move by Expedia.com, and such audits may give users of dot-coms some reassurance. But they hardly answer all the questions about online privacy.
One ERP for S'pore non-profit healthcare
News Eleven non-profit healthcare organizations will be implementing one integrated system to make it easier to share patients' medical records.
Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
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
IT to the rescue
Insight International SOS' CTO Todd Schofield shares how real-time information access has helped the organization provide better medical assistance, even in the most remote locations.
Tags: IT Management
A touch of healthcare and technology
Insight Dr. Colin Quek, CIO of Raffles Medical Group, discusses why the social component of healthcare can make IT spending more complex in this industry.
Tags: IT budgeting, Project management, IT budgeting, Project management
Talking PCs? Talk to the hand
Insight Voice recognition and speech synthesis technologies may not have developed to the degree some science fiction writers hoped, but have nevertheless seen some startling successes.
Tags: Software engineering/development
