Losses amounted to E39.3m (£25m), compared with E18.4m (£11.7m) for the previous year despite a rise in revenue to E123m (£78.4m). The manufacturer's share price slumped at the beginning of this year after revenue figures were lower than expected...
The consumer healthcare market in the US will be worth $205.2bn by 2003, according to Jupiter Communications. Healtheon, whose main product is a service that allows doctors to submit claims to insurance companies through a Web site, has bought...
By standardising on a common way to display medical data, Microsoft hopes the industry can make a dent in the 600,000 errors that take place in US hospitals each year, many of them from medication mix-ups.
This low-tech approach can lead to transcription errors by fatigued nurses and potentially serious medical problems for patients, said Ann Williamson, nursing director at UCSF. Nurses at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center...
For all the talk of benefit cheats in trashy tabloids, typically the greatest level of fraud comes from within the health service - doctors and dentists who can soon accrue millions by working the system and relying on sheer volume of transactions...
The trial extension, which is being conducted with Siemens Business Services, is intended to help medical staff cut clinical errors by verifying blood has reached the right patient using information held on the RFID tagged bags.