Hospitals in the Middle East are set to benefit from sophisticated electronic clinical decision support following the commercial agreement between First DataBank International (FDB International) and GE Healthcare (GE).
As government and healthcare leaders invest billions of dollars in healthcare information technologies (IT) to improve the accessibility, affordability and quality of healthcare for their citizens, hospital datacenters may not be ready for the demand that more patients and digital information will create, according to a survey of hospital IT executives at small and medium hospitals in the U.S., U.K., Canada, China, France and Germany conducted by the HIMSS Analytics, sponsored by Dell.
System C has been named one of the top 100 companies to work for in the UK. The software and services company won a place in the 2010 Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to Work For survey, published in the Sunday Times this weekend.
Agfa HealthCare, the leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, has installed the United Kingdom's first IMPAX 6.4 Picture Archiving and Communications System at the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in London.
Google announces an addition to Google Labs - the Public Data Explorer. The purpose of the new tool, Google says on the new lab's page, "The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate.
The eHealth landscape offers both opportunities and barriers to policy makers in the EU 27 member states which are not just about technical issues of interoperability and data security and confidentiality.