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...
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...
As part of the announcement, Microsoft has shown how InfoPath-created forms can be used to route data according to the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) format, a new standard adopted by the healthcare industry for the electronic exchange of data.
It's a great example of 21st century technology supporting 21st century healthcare. The national programme is a set of national projects that in time will put in place the systems to help care providers deliver seamless care.
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...
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.