Arizona boosts health data system with SAS technology
The Arizona Health Query, a project designed to develop and maintain a community health data system for Arizona residents, is using analytics software to integrate and analyse healthcare records.
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HL7 publishes draft PHR standards
The standardisation of Personal Health Records (PHRs) received a boost with the international healthcare IT standards body, Health Level Seven (HL7) publishing a Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) as a draft standard for trial use.
Accentia Technologies bags $22 mn order in HRCM arena
Accentia Technologies Ltd., a leading provider of Healthcare Receivables Cycle Management, has secured an order valued at US$ 22 million to service a chain of hospitals in US.
Fortis eyes stakes in hospital chains
Fortis Healthcare, which operates a chain of hospitals across India, is seeking to buy a minority stake in Manipal Hospitals and Wockhardt.
Medwin Hospital gets NABH certification
Medwin Hospital recently received a National Accreditation Board for hospitals & Healthcare (NABH) certificate and is now the first hospital in Andhra Pradesh and the 20th in India to do so.
Vodafone invests in mobile health firm
Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across mobile handsets.
KLAS announces top-performing software and services vendors for 2008
Market research firm KLAS has named Epic as the highest-performing healthcare vendor across all market segments in its annual rankings, which were released recently.
Pan-European 112 emergency number a reality
Citizens across all European Union countries can now access emergency services by dialling 112, the single European emergency number.
Medicare to pay doctors to embrace e-prescribing
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled in the US, will offer financial bonuses to doctors who prescribe drugs electronically rather than on paper. Doctors who do not will face penalties from Medicare starting in 2012.
Apollo to foray into drug manufacturing
Apollo Hospitals, India
European drugs to carry barcodes
Medicines sold across Europe will have to carry barcodes and other improved security mechanisms, under proposals unveiled by the European Commission to crack down on counterfeit drugs.
Commission sets out steps on patient safety
The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm from the healthcare they received.
Govt mulls medical devices price regulation Act
The Government would soon bring in a medical devices Act in a bid to regulate prices of healthcare equipment.
