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Medsphere Successfully Implements Electronic Medication Administration Solution
in West Virgina State Facilities
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| Medsphere implemented the OpenVista EHR at all eight of West Virginia’s
| acute, psychiatric and long-term care facilities in 2008. The integration of
| BCMA is one more step the state is taking to create a secure and nearly
| paperless system uniting all West Virginia state-owned healthcare facilities
| to even include outside contractors.
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http://uk.sys-con.com/node/820737/print
THIRD ANNUAL DEMONSTRATING OPEN-SOURCE HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS (DOHCS) CONFERENCE
LAUNCHES ANNUAL LINUX GATHERING
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| Join the Demonstrating Open-Source Healthcare Solutions (DOHCS) 2009
| conference on February 9 to discuss and learn more about these and related
| issues. Now in its third year as special lead-in event for the Southern
| California Linux Expo (SCaLE), DOHCS offers those with an interest in Linux,
| open source, and healthcare the opportunity to share ideas and organize
| around achievable projects to address one of the looming concerns of the
| early twenty-first century. Where proprietary technology has proven itself
| unable to advance this crucial industry, open source promises the
| transparency and collaboration on which quality patient care is built.
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/11143.html
Recent:
National Health Service Islington Selects Pentaho Business Intelligence to
Improve Patient Services
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| Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open sourcealternative for business
| intelligence(BI), today announced that National Health Service (NHS)
| Islington hasdeployed Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition for data mining,
| reporting, andextract, transform, and load (ETL)capabilities. The
| application, implemented by Pentaho Certified PartnerThotWave Technologies,
| allows NHS Islington to identify high-risk patientsand initiate preventative
| care, leading to lower hospital admissions,operating costs and healthcare
| spend.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20081215/business-intelligence.htm
UK's £12.7 billion NHS scheme in trouble
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| Currently the only thing saving the project is the high cost of cancelling
| contracts with IT suppliers. In other words, the government has wasted so
| much dosh already, it might as well try to plug in the lemon.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/29/uk-nhs-scheme-trouble
Costs for the NHS National Programme for IT continue to escalate
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| The cost of the NHS's National Programme for IT has risen dramatically.
| Questions in the House of Commons to the Minister of State for Health
| Services, Ben Bradshaw, published in Hansard on the 1st of September, appear
| to reveal that BT will now be paid £1bn for supplying the national data spine
| for the NPfT, rather than the originally contracted fee of £620m.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/115822
How Healthy are the Views of the BCS?
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| This is very worrying: if Britain's leading computing institution thinks that
| Internet Explorer is the acme of safe, fast, standards-based browsing, it
| could probably do with some healthcare itself.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1246&blogid=14
BCS to review NHS IT for Tories
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| Shadow health secretary Stephen O'Brien MP has commissioned an independent
| report from the British Computer Society on what English health service IT
| should look like in five years' time.
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| Beyond that patient-based records will form the basis of NHS informatics, no
| assumptions are being made, according the review's chair Dr Glyn Hayes, past
| chair of the BCS Health Informatics Forum.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/bcs_nhs_it_review/
Chaos as £13bn NHS computer system falters
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| A £13bn overhaul of the NHS records system has suffered so many problems that
| hospitals have struggled to keep track of people requiring operations,
| patients with suspected MRSA and potential cancer sufferers needing urgent
| consultations.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/aug/10/nhs.computersystem
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