Chan Wang Hon has been appointed CFO wef Jan 12
Work experience: Group director, corporate development, Health Management Intl Ltd; director, CJ GLS Asia Pte Ltd; CFO, Accord Express Holdings Pte Ltd
Serbian Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević has resigned, saying the decision came “for deeply personal reasons”.
Reporters who attended his news conference in Belgrade today were not allowed to ask any questions.
Compuware unit Covisint will create a health information exchange for the Greater Tulsa Health Access Network using its ExchangeLink cloud platform. – Cloud computing provider Covisint, a division of enterprise software firm Compuware,
has announced a deal with Greater Tulsa Health Access Network to build an HIE (health
information exchange) in the Tulsa, Okla., metropolitan area using Covisint’s
ExchangeLink cloud platform.
Greater THAN is a…
North York General Hospital in Toronto will use IBM’s InfoSphere and Cognos applications to aggregate medical data into a standard format and a user-friendly dashboard view. – NYGH (North York General Hospital),
a multisite teaching hospital in Toronto,
will become the first Canadian hospital to integrate both IBM’s data aggregation software and a dashboard tool.
Big Blue has optimized its InfoSphere Clinical Analytics application
to process the data-intensive workl…
Hans-Georg Wagner, the IT chief for the European Medicines Agency, the equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, talks to eWEEK about IT systems, data analysis and interoperability. – The equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the EMA
(European Medicines Agency), based in London, is a public health agency in
the European Union that approves drugs and provides guidelines for health care
providers and pharmaceutical firms for a region spanning from the Arctic Circl…
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DocCom, a social networking firm for doctors and clinicians, participated in the Future Health Mission, in which 19 UK companies toured San Francisco Bay’s Silicon Valley region seeking investors. – Enterprise social-networking firm DocCom Solutions and 18 other UK health care
companies toured Silicon Valley the week of Jan. 13, as part of the 2011 UK Future Health Mission, to drum
up support for their work in health care and find potential investors to expand
into the United States.
Billi…
Partnering with Microsoft, the Digital Health Summit called attention to consumer innovations such as robotic limbs and smart pills as some of the "game-changing" innovations in health care. – At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, a Digital Health Summit event highlighted some
innovative quot;game changers quot; poised to change elder care, implants and
medication management.
Organizing the Jan. 7 Digital
Health Summit were Jill Gilbert, a product strategist and co…
Health insurance software, as the name suggests, is any software that facilitates the easier transaction of health plans and maintenance of policy records.
At the rate computer technology is evolving it takes some imagination to picture how digital advances will change health care in the coming years. The economic and socio-political climate trends indicate that the future could be less than idyllic. In the future health care information could be kept in a centralized databank with the complete rundown of a person’s identity; this means that whoever controls the data controls the medical, financial, and privacy issues of the individual.
HP gets a $30 million contract to build an HIE in Texas, while GE and KeyHIE expand a health information network in Pennsylvania and Harris takes the HIE reins in Florida. – Amid a flurry of new HIEs
(health information exchanges) around the country, on Jan. 12 Hewlett-Packard announced
a 52-month services deal with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to
create a statewide Medicaid HIE.
HP is the principal IT provider for Medicaid in 21 states.
HIEs p…
Health care alliance Premier will use IBM applications such as Initiate and WebSphere on a Power7 system to attempt to unify patient data for both providers and payers. – IBM and Premier Healthcare Alliance, an
organization dedicated to health care performance improvement, have announced a
partnership to build a new open-standard, data-metric platform to allow hospitals in Premier’s network to share data.
Premier serves more than 2,400 U.S. hospitals and 70,000-…
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a reduction in allowable fluoride levels in U.S. drinking water:HHS’ proposed recommendation of 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per …
Networking hardware maker Zyxel will integrate its Smart Home Gateway with Entra Health Systems’ wireless glucometer to send blood sugar data to caregivers in real time. – Zyxel Communications, a leading maker of
networking and security hardware for the home and small business markets, has
announced an agreement to integrate its Smart Home Gateway with Entra Health Systems’
MyGlucoHealth Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose meter.
The
companies announced the partner…
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Motion Computing announces its CL900 ultralight, rugged tablet for health care, retail and other verticals. – Motion
Computing has introduced its announced
this week at CES, Engadget reports.
With
its light weight of 2.1 pounds and 8 hours of battery life, the CL900 is
suitable for doctors as they move around all day from room to room. In
addition, the IP-52 rated exterior surface makes the CL900 id…
At CES, Telcare will show a 3G blood glucose meter featuring a Qualcomm wireless module, while iHealth launches a blood pressure monitoring application for the iPhone and iPad. – Mobile technology company Qualcomm has announced that it
will integrate its wireless IEM
(Internet of Everything Module) into health care technology provider
Telcare’s 3G-enabled 3GM blood glucose meter.
Announced on Jan. 4, the Telcare device will be on display at
Qualcomm’s booth at CES (th…
A new report by Pyramid Research reveals that 70 percent of respondents want access to m-health applications, even if they have to pay for it. – The mobile health market is growing substantially and will increase
threefold by 2012, presenting both challenges and opportunities for MNOs
(mobile network operators) and companies across the mobile technology spectrum,
according to a new report
by Pyramid Research.
M-health uses CDMA (Code D…
