The chief executive of the NHS has reaffirmed the government's commitment to introducing more private providers to primary care, and has spoken of the drive towards "personalisation" of patient services.
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NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too
centralised to support the move to a health service based on plurality and far more
locally-based decision making by clinicians and patients.
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BERLIN, March 7, 2008 — The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) efforts to build an innovative “international medical and academic highway” will be featured on March 10 in presentations at the fourth annual World Health Care Congress Europe in Berlin.
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Next week sees hundreds of senior health officials from across Europe congregate in
Berlin, Germany, for the 4th Annual World Health Care Congress Europe.
As a supporting publication, E-Health Europe will be reporting live from the event,
bringing you all the latest developments in European e-health.
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The issue of confluence between quality of care and cost was the highlight of yesterday's opening session at the World Congress' Evidence-Based Medicine Summit in Alexandria, Virginia.
Keynote speaker Margaret O'Kane, president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance, began on a hopeful note:
"We're not where we need to be today, [but] we're seeing more and more about what needs to change."
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I'm back in the saddle after taking a few weeks of much needed vacation and family time
over the Holidays. Forgive me for lapsing on my weekly HealthBlog postings, and for
my failure to wish my loyal readers Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year.
Right before my Holiday break, I attended the World Healthcare Innovation and IT
Congress in Washington, D.C., at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. In my last posting, I told
you about Kevin Kelly's terrific keynote at the event.
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Steve Case Co-founder AOL and CEO, Revolution Health speaking at the World
Healthcare (Innovation and Technology Congress) held in Washington D.C. said,
“Consumers and patients are embracing technology and going to the internet for
information, but they also want to take it a step further and have tools available to
customize their own health information. Revolution Health is meeting these needs by
building a company not only with products and services but also by developing
innovative partnerships to meet future consumer needs for larger specialized health
networks.
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Jerome Grossman MD., Director, Health Care Delivery Policy Program, JFK School of
Government, Harvard University, painted a realistic picture of healthcare. He said, “The
present healthcare system has moved from a framework of professional dominance to one
of measurement and accounting. The healthcare system is heading towards using people
with less training to provide products and services so that healthcare will be more
affordable and accessible for the majority of the population.
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What once was considered a technology-phobic industry, health care providers are
offering exchanges of information and new tools to make consumers more attuned to
their health care spending.
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What once was considered a technology-phobic industry, health care providers are offering exchanges of information and new tools to make consumers more attuned to their health care spending.
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Companies have developed advanced devices that are capable of monitoring patients'
physiological and device information in the hospital, at home and in a variety of other
settings, but stakeholders say the market is limited by reluctance among device firms to
advance interoperability.
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Companies have developed advanced devices that are capable of monitoring patients' physiological and device information in the hospital, at home and in a variety of other settings, but stakeholders say the market is limited by reluctance among device firms to
advance interoperability.
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Health care executives at a health technology and innovation forum this week detailed
ways to facilitate health IT adoption, Government Health IT's "Notebook" reports.
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Lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about a book I haven’t read: The Progress Paradox:
How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, by Brookings Institute think-tanker (and
noted ESPN columnist) Gregg Easterbrook. I thought of the book this past weekend
while sitting in on a series of thought-provoking lectures by healthcare innovators at the
World Healthcare and Innovation Technology Congress 3.0.
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Lately, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about a book I haven’t read: The Progress Paradox:
How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, by Brookings Institute think-tanker (and
noted ESPN columnist) Gregg Easterbrook. I thought of the book this past weekend
while sitting in on a series of thought-provoking lectures by healthcare innovators at the
World Healthcare and Innovation Technology Congress 3.0.
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Health care executives at a health technology and innovation forum this week detailed ways to facilitate health IT adoption, Government Health IT's "Notebook" reports.
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Paul McCloskey | Government Health IT
An Italian electronic heath care pilot funded by the European Union includes a “smart medicine cabinet” that
electronically screens medications for adverse drug interactions as well as automates refill ordering,
payment authorization and delivery.
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12 December 2007
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Paul McCloskey | Government Health IT
An Italian electronic heath care pilot funded by the European Union includes a "smart medicine cabinet" that electronically screens medications for adverse drug interactions as well as automates refill ordering, payment authorization and delivery.
Making it work requires a complex set of identity management and privacy agreements, prerequisites of a future health care Internet where health information can be easily shared and data sifted to hone the performance and results of health care procedures.
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The winners of the first annual Editor’s Choice Awards were announced at the 3rd
Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress (WHIT 3.0). The victors
were revealed Sunday, Dec. 9, at the conference’s networking gala at the Mandarin
Oriental Hotel in Washington. The awards are co-sponsored by WHIT 3.0 and Health
Data Management.
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