The Chief Information Officer of the HSE Richard Corbridge has launched a public consultation process on a range of matters regarding a new national Electronic Health Record (EHR). A national EHR is a comprehensive and combined solution that supports the creation, management and sharing of key patient information.
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that it has added primary care sports medicine to UpToDate®, its evidence-based clinical decision support resource, marking the 23rd medical specialty available to subscribing clinicians and healthcare institutions around the world.
Ascom has acquired the Italian software company UMS (United Medical Software), which provides integrations for medical devices and supplies digital medical records software solutions for life-critical patient care. With the acquisition of UMS, Ascom will gain access to new software and competence for global integrated workflow solutions in Healthcare ICT.
6 - 8 April 2016, Luxembourg.
19 - 21 April 2016, Berlin, Germany.
A part Department of Health owned joint venture, aiming to save the NHS £1 billion in efficiencies by 2020, has launched a new procurement framework designed to save the NHS, local government and the wider public sector millions of pounds on everything from security to catering.
22 - 25 February 2016, Barcelona, Spain.
In order to implement the EU-US interoperability roadmap, activities including inter-alia piloting and standardisation activities need to be put in place. Further actions would be needed to implement recommended measures, taking into account the importance to have a convergent EU-US approach.