The country's Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) adopted Sun Microsystems' Java card technology primarily to prevent identity theft, according to a statement from the computing firm. The distribution of the 22 million health cards, started...
Ascension Health is the US' largest Catholic and not-for-profit health system, with over 100,000 associates serving in 67 acute care hospitals and other related facilities around the country. We are satisfied that extending our relationship with...
Health care is still potentially one of the big sleepers. The future for the technology industry lies under your skin, according to Intel CEO Craig Barrett. Inefficiencies in the medical industry, along with advances in chip manufacturing and...
Deliberate actions exacerbate the situation, such as the transfer of PC ownership from general practitioners to Primary Care Trusts and the Health Act which imposes compulsory disclosure of medical information.
At the core of the project is the NHS Care Records Service, which is designed to replace local NHS computer systems with more integrated packages and make parts of a patient's clinical record available electronically throughout England.
A health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it has pulled out of the national NHS IT electronic care record programme because it has lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu.