A Virtual Private Network (VPN) connecting healthcare sites in north-west England is set to double in size three years after the scheme was launched. The network is being extended to include The Christie NHS Trust, Crewe Hospital, Bury Healthcare...
Healthcare IT vendors have welcomed the appointment of Alan Milburn as Secretary of State for Health following Tony Blair's cabinet reshuffle on Monday. He added that Alan Milburn's experience in PFI (Private Finance Initiative) projects will be...
The healthcare industry is significantly under-investing in IT, according to a report out this week from research house Datamonitor. According to the company's market analysis, complex and expensive systems have discouraged doctors and healthcare...
Software firms in the healthcare sector are weathering the economic downturn better than companies working in other vertical markets. Particularly successful are those in the healthcare sector. Infermed - which specialises in software for clinical...
RFID has already proved popular in the healthcare industry as a means of tracking pharmaceutical products and preventing counterfeit stock entering the supply chain. Healthcare is predicted to be one of the major growth areas for RFID.
Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce congestion; intelligent transport...