London Rolls out Summary Care Records
November 20, 2009
As a part of a national initiative to equip citizens with electronic care records, the Department of Health has announced the launch of the Summary Care Record (SCR) throughout London. Under the program, all citizens in the capital would be informed, in writing, about the outlines of the SCR initiative, giving them the option to decide whether to create their own SCR. The initial SCRs to be developed will be uploaded at the Princess Street Group Practice, based at Southwark. In addition, the records will also be created at two GP practices located at Chingford, east London. Read more
Why Healthcare Organizations Should Stop Buying Storage
November 18, 2009
Written by John Lazarus
Federal mandates, such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), focus on digitizing health records and help facilitate clinical data exchange to reduce errors, lower costs and improve patient care. As wide Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption will boost storage growth, patient care will increasingly depend on the ability to reliably and easily access these health records. The mandates outlined in the ARRA ensure that the adoption of EMRs will become more widespread in the coming years. Read more
Open Source Technology in Healthcare
November 18, 2009
Open source is an innovative software development approach that allows accessibility to a software’s source code to the general public, under moderate or zero copyright limitations. By providing access to the software source code, an open source project provides an opportunity for designing, modifying, customizing, and distributing the software. This helps the users overcome the challenges of product rigidity, vendor lock-in, complex licensing terms, as well as cost related issues. Read more
ALERT: HHS Awards IT Services Contract to CSC
November 18, 2009
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded an Information Technology Infrastructure Operations indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). The contract, with a three-year base period and four one-year options, was granted during CSC’s FY2Q 2010, which ended on October 2, 2009. Read more
Auditor General of Canada makes Recommendations to Infoway on Contracting and Reporting of EHR Projects
November 16, 2009
A recent audit report on the Canada Health Infoway (Infoway), carried out by the Auditor General of Canada (OAG), has indicated that Infoway has accomplished much from its inception eight years ago. The OAG, who started an audit in February 2008, made recommendations to Infoway to enhance its public reporting control, goods and services contracting, project deliverables documentation, apart from technical suggestions related to ensuring compliance with standards. Read more
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