WASHINGTON, D.C. – A survey of U.S. hospitals with Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) systems found that 39 percent of potentially harmful drug orders weren’t flagged by the systems to alert staff of potential errors.
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LONDON, U.K. – The British government will invest £4.2 billion in National Health Service technology over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt (pictured) has said. The money will be invested in making healthcare paperless at the point of care by 2018, and to be using fully digital, interoperable health and social care records by 2020.
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TORONTO – The Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade is sponsoring an Ontario pavilion at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference and trade show, to be held in Chicago from November 29th to December 3rd. It is offering Ontario companies booth space in the pavilion.
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LONDON, UK – Capita Healthcare Decisions has won a contract with Healthdirect Australia to help people check their symptoms online and receive personalized healthcare advice. With over 80% of Australians seeking health information online, Healthdirect Australia recognized the importance of ensuring that the information they are accessing is safe, relevant and trustworthy.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google is introducing a new feature that will provide information on “common” medical conditions in response to related searches by users. The search giant’s Knowledge Graph, which supports its instant search results and underpins the Google Now personal assistant and app, will provide answers to health questions directly without requiring a user to click on a link.
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ETON, UK – InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with the InterSystems HealthShare health informatics platform to support a new national Child Protection-Information Sharing (CP-IS) project.
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TURIN, Italy – InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected healthcare, and the City of Health and Science University Hospital of Turin have signed an agreement to deploy the InterSystems TrakCare unified health information system to enhance and integrate patient care across the four City of Health and Science hospitals: Molinette, Sant’Anna Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Regina Margherita Children’s Hospital, and Maria Adelaide Orthopaedic and Trauma Center.
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ETON, UK – InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected healthcare, has announced that South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has chosen the InterSystems HealthShare health informatics platform for its health information exchange (HIE) and clinical portal for use throughout the South Devon and Torbay region.
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LONDON – The British government has signed a deal with Microsoft to provide Windows XP support and security updates for the entire public sector, including the National Health Service.
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