However, he stressed that since the last Department of Health policy report in 1998, the government has allocated £1bn to a long-term healthcare IT strategy. John Wyn Owen, secretary of the Nuffield Trust, admitted that lack of finance, the complex...
Companies such as Setec and Kalamazoo Informatique Sante already offer management software to help the health market, while Gemplus is developing workstations with a smartcard reader for the Carte Vitale and the Carte des Professionals de Sante...
CSC has won a $1.35bn outsourcing megadeal as part of a contract extension with US not-for-profit healthcare company Ascension Health. Ascension Health is the US' largest Catholic and not-for-profit health system, with over 100,000 associates...
Some recent products seek to improve this - Borland's Caliber DefineIT development tool, for example, seeks to improve the ability of IT and the business to speak a common language. Intersystems, which has had some success in UK and US healthcare...
As a self governing community, the island's Department of Health and Social Security chose a different approach to upgrading its healthcare IT systems than other parts of the UK. The Isle of Man government has struck a £7.5m, seven-year deal which...
Speaking at a joint session of GC Expo, Smart Healthcare and Procurement Solutions on Tuesday, Connecting for Health chief executive Richard Granger gave delegates an update on what has so far been achieved in terms of core system delivery.