New ICT investment for Health Department in Ireland
Department of Health for Northern Ireland Health Minister, Shaun Woodward welcomed proposals for a
Department of Health for Northern Ireland Health Minister, Shaun Woodward welcomed proposals for a
Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency of Britain is going to provide detailed digital geographic information (GI) to every ambulance trust in England from this month.
Recently 120 health practitioners in Bangladesh were successfully trained up on ICT implications in medical science in an international course titled ‘e-Health & Learning: Health Informatics Training Courses for Practitioners (e-HL-HIC).’
iSoft, the UK-based health software company, said that its Lorenzo healthcare solution, which was conceived at its Chennai development centre in India, has passed strict tests.
General Practitioners in UK are benefited from GP-to-GP data transfer system, according to a new survey conducted for InPS (which supplies Windows-based clinical systems for Primary Care).
The Innovations Ministry of Italy has vowed to allocate 15m euro in government fund to adopt online health service booking operations.
Health IT can drastically improve health-care access and the quality of that care, and can dramatically lower the costs.
Technology has the potential of enhancing both quality and cost efficiency not only in the larger centers but also in rural clinics and hospitals as well.
Bangkok Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in Thailand providing tertiary healthcare, has been studying a plan to implement RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to enhance the level of safety for its patients.
Government ministers of United Kingdom believe that new technology can also be harnessed to help elderly people live independently for longer.
A recent study by The Focal Point Group LLC predicts that spending for wireless health care applications will reach $7 billion by 2010.
In a bid to improve patient care, governments in Europe and North America are pushing for the adoption of electronic records and data transfers, which is kick-starting the growth of a hybrid business that attracts companies from both the healthcare and tech arenas.
Computational genomics, proteomics and drug design get a boost with the Centre for Genomic Application adopting high performance computing solutions to cut down the research time and costs.