Infrastructure
Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“Denen selecteren InterSystems HealthShare voor landelijke uitwisseling zorginformatie InterSystems Corporation, mondiaal toonaangevend in software voor de zorgsector, maakt bekend dat InterSystems HealthShare™ is gekozen als systeem waarmee zorginstellingen in Denemarken gegevens gaan uitwisselen via een zogeheten ’health information exchange’ (HIE).
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3 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Denmark | EHR: EHR, EHR Denmark | Tag(s): Health Information Technology, Industry, Infrastructure
Gary Palgon, Healthcare IT News
“The day is rapidly coming when healthcare providers across the country will be able to share information about patients with a few clicks of a mouse.
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31 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Infrastructure, integration, Sustainability
James Whitemore, mHIMSS
“But what does that really mean for healthcare facilities? Do you now need to abandon your current technology investment and move it to the cloud? If you don’t perform a complete rip-and-replace right now, do you risk being left behind and losing market share to more cloud-savvy competitors?
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27 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Cloud, Health Information Technology, Infrastructure
Nari Kannan, SearchHealthIT
“The Ottawa (Ontario) Hospital is the largest acute care hospital in Canada, with 1,163 beds and 11,967 staff members, among them 1,159 attending physicians and 3,886 registered nurses. The hospital announced in December that it will use Aruba Networks Inc.’s WiFi Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) system to connect 3,000 Apple devices — including iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch units — at the medical facility.
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20 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada, United States | Tag(s): CPOE, Hospitals, Infrastructure, Networks, tablet PC
Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“Developers of GP desktop software working on NEHTA’s vendor panel expect the authority to be able to make a series of positive announcements in the early part of next year, as they make steady progress on key elements of the infrastructure needed to launch the nation’s ehealth revolution.
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29 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): CDA, Coding, GP, Infrastructure, Messaging, Security
Carina van Aartsen, Zorgvisie
“Alles ligt klaar: een landelijke infrastructuur om elektronische patiëntendossiers op te laten draaien en informatie uit te wisselen. Minstens veertien jaar gepraat en naar schatting 300 miljoen euro heeft het gekost, maar dan heb je ook wat. Of toch niet?
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22 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tag(s): Implementation, Infrastructure
Charles Wright, eHealthCentral
“An article published by the American Health Information and Management Systems Society suggests the infrastructure put in place for Australia’s PCEHR gives it a better chance of succeeding than the abandoned Google Health initiative, but indicates that the task of getting consumers to take it up will not be easy.
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17 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): Infrastructure, phr
René Schoemaker, WebWereld
“Een meerderheid van de Tweede Kamer wil een doorstart van het Elektronisch Patiëntendossier (EPD), maar als er geen 10 miljoen euro op tafel komt, gaat per 1 januari de stekker er toch uit.
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16 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tag(s): Costs, Infrastructure
Pim van der Beek, Computable
“Een Kamermeerderheid wil het landelijk schakelpunt (lsp) behouden. In een motie roepen CDA, PvdA en VVD CDA-minister Schippers van Volksgezonheid op om alles in het werk te stellen om de infrastructuur achter het elektronisch patiëntendossier (epd) te behouden.
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16 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tag(s): Infrastructure
Gijs Herderscheê, VK.nl
“Het doek is gevallen voor het landelijk Elektronisch Patiëntendossier EPD. Te weinig huisartsen, apotheken en huisartsenposten hebben zich aangemeld voor de gegevensuitwisseling om het systeem in de lucht te houden. Op 1 januari 2012 wordt de stekker uit het systeem getrokken.
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8 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tag(s): Failure, Infrastructure
Wolter Wefers Bettink, Zorgvisie
“Als gevolg van de afwijzing van de EPD-wet door de Eerste Kamer in april jl. dreigt de kostbare infrastructuur (het Landelijk Schakelpunt, een investering van ruim € 300 miljoen) naar de schroothoop te verdwijnen.
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8 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Infrastructure
Nictiz
“Op 4 november bespreekt het bestuur van Nictiz het perspectief van voortzetting van de infrastructuur zonder overheidssteun. Volgende week wordt het besluit genomen.
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6 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tag(s): Infrastructure
Lodewijk Bos, Patiënt en EPD
“Nu.nl schrijft vandaag dat: “De impact van het verwijderen van de medische gegevens van ruim 5,8 miljoen Nederlanders die voor het elektronisch patiëntendossier (EPD) zijn verzameld is enorm.”
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6 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tag(s): Failure, Infrastructure
Skipr
“Minister Edith Schippers steunt het plan dat Nictiz heeft ingediend voor een doorstart van het particuliere Landelijk Schakelpunt (LSP), de motor van het Landelijke EPD. Dat blijkt uit een brief die de minister aan de Tweede Kamer heeft gestuurd.
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15 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | EHR: EHR, EHR Netherlands | Tag(s): Implementation, Infrastructure
Sylvia Szabó, The Slovak Spectator
“e-Health – health care supported by electronic processes – is one of the ten priorities of the eEurope 2005 Action Plan, an initiative of the European Union to provide Internet access to European citizens and companies. e-Health’s aim is to create user-friendly and interoperable information systems for patients and health-care professionals in Europe.
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12 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Slovakia | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): e-Health, Infrastructure, Legal
David Astley, ComputerWeekly
“At a government event recently, Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, said he would like to see more doctors regularly offering remote consultations to patients via video link within the next year. With the NHS facing severe spending cuts, the move could allow the NHS to make savings while reducing waiting times for millions of patients in the UK.
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23 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): GP, Infrastructure, Teleconsultation, Telemedicine, Videoconferencing
Adrienne Valdez, Asia Pacific Futuregov
“Health Minister, Nicola Roxon has commissioned a consortium, led by Accenture, to build Australia’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records (PCEHR) system.
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19 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): Implementation, Infrastructure
Mark Heraghty, Virgin Media Business
“Speaking to a doctor via a webcam might sound like something out of The Jetsons, but it could be a reality sooner than you think. Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of the NHS, has called for doctors to offer remote consultations to patients via video link within the next year. But is this a service people want from their family doctor?
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16 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): diagnose, GP, Infrastructure, Teleconsultation, Telemedicine
James Hutchinson, itnews
“The Federal Department of Health and Ageing has denied states and territories additional funding to implement its $467 million personally-controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) project.
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12 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): Failure, Infrastructure
Gary L. Thompson, HL7 Standards
“Over the past several months, I have enjoyed the weekly #hitsm chats moderated by the team that brings us HL7Standards.com. During those tweet chats, it became clear that 2 or 3 extended posts might be a valuable addition to the occasional 140 character burst of wisdom that I hope to have contributed on behalf of @CLOUDHealth at #hitsm. It is hard to pack the entire CLOUD vision into one post, so we decided to break it up.
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22 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Infrastructure