Biohealthmatics.com News Digest - 2/13/2007

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Biohealthmatics.com's Daily News Digest The latest health informatics news from Biohealthmatics.com Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 Syndicated Health Informatics and Healthcare IT News Syndicated Bionformatics and Biotechnology News User Posted Healthcare IT and Biotechnology News Healthcare IT and Biotechnology News Releases Back to top Syndicated Health Informatics and Healthcare IT News  News Feed: OJEU notice signals start of GP systems procurement EHI Primary Care - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:20:15 PM Procurement for GP Systems of Choice will begin this week and be complete in three months' time, finally delivering the right to IT system choice enshrined in the 2003 GMS contract, NHS Connecting for Health has ... more GP questions Hewitt on 'vanishing' C+B services EHI Primary Care - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:29:07 AM A GP has questioned health secretary Patricia Hewitt about the use of Choose and Book for demand management as a forthcoming survey highlights growing disquiet among doctors about "vanishing services" on the e-booking ... more New Cerner deployment goes live in Hampshire E-Health-Insider - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:41:57 AM Another stretch of the Southern Cluster has gone live with Cerner's Milllennium patient administration system, delivered by local service provider, Fujitsu as part of the NHS IT ... more 'Isabel' as a verb? Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:39:09 AM Will "Isabel" become a verb, much in the way "Google" has? A Fox News story from December on Isabel Healthcare , developer of a diagnostic decision support engine, suggested that it already has. The correspondent, Dr. Christine Dumas, says that clinicians in some hospitals routinely ask, ... more Meet the Bloggers details Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:39:08 AM Here are the details for the second-annual Meet the Bloggers event: Date: Sunday, Feb. 25 Time: 8 p.m. (after the HIMSS'07 opening reception) Location: Mulate's , 201 Julia St.. New Orleans (right across from the Morial Convention Center) Admission: Free This information comes from ... more more syndicated health informatics and healthcare IT news... Back to top Back to top Syndicated Bioinformatics and Biotechnology News News Feed: Biology Goes Open Source Bio-IT World - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:42:40 AM Forbes.com | Some of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away. ... more Slovenia: Environmentalists Say Slovenia Should Vote Against GMOs Moreover - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:20:00 PM SEARCH: FROM TO Slovenia: Environmentalists Say Slovenia Should Vote Against GMOs09:27 - 07 February 2007The Institute for Sustainable Development, an environment NGO, called on Environment and Spatial Planning Minister Janez Podobnik to vote against ... more The 4th Annual BioFine Europe Convention announces Conference Networking System is now live. Moreover - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:22:00 PM Advertising & Sponsorship | BioEmail | BioSurveys | BioConnection | About BioPortfolio | User Agreement biotechnology will impact on our ... more FingerPIN Seeks UK Channel Partners For The World's First Multi-Sequential Fingerprinting Biometric Moreover - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:37:00 PM 13 February 2007, London, UK security software vendor fingerPIN Ltd is gearing up to sign its first distributors as it announces its official channel launch. The company, which has been operating since June 2006, has been selling via the direct route ... more Toshiba fingers biometrics for phones Moreover - Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:42:00 PM Toshiba has introduced its first mobile phone handsets with built-in fingerprint scanners. The G900 Portage and TS605 handsets have fingerprint scanners built-in to the back of the handsets and can be used as a replacement for Pins to secure the ... more more syndicated bioinformatics and biotechnology news... Back to top Back to top User Posted Healthcare IT and Biotechnology News News Feed: Using EHRs to extract data on adverse drug events During the opening reception at the National Patient Safety Foundation's annual conference in San Francisco last May, patient-safety pioneer Lucian Leape was holding court and talking about how electronic health records could be used to automatically capture data on any adverse reactions or side effects of new drugs on the market.... Comments (0) Source: ModernHealthcare.com Posted: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 by Obi - View more news posts by Obi Nurses urge caution over EU patient record sharing European Commission discusses scheme for sharing medical records across the continent ... Comments (0) Source: Computeractive, UK Posted: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 by Obi - View more news posts by Obi Software for electronic prescriptions coming to local pharmacies In recent years, hospitals, physicians and pharmacies across the country have been installing new software programs that enable electronic prescriptions.... Comments (0) Source: Nevada Appeal Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007 by Obi - View more news posts by Obi Telemedicine brings doctors to workplace virtually Workers at the four elder-care residences in San Antonio and Boerne can meet with virtual in-house doctors for everything from flu to high blood pressure. They sit on exam tables facing a monitor on which they can see the doctor. ... Comments (0) Source: San Antonio Express Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007 by Obi - View more news posts by Obi As Telemedicine Gains Popularity, Healthcare Facilities Must Guard Against Risks Just 20 years ago, providing healthcare services using telecommunications seemed closer to science fiction than reality. In 2007, however, many U.S. hospitals are beginning to implement telemedicine programs, allowing, for example, specialists in off-site locations to provide consulting services to onsite physicians. ... Comments (0) Source: DOTmed.com Posted: Sunday, February 11, 2007 by Obi - View more news posts by Obi more user posted healthcare IT and biotechnology news... Back to top Healthcare IT and Biotechnology News Releases News Feed: University of Illinois Purchased 3rd Millennium's Award Winning Array Repository and Data Analysis System (ARDAS) Monday, February 12, 2007 3rd Millennium, Inc. announced that the Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics at the University of Illinois has purchased their award winning Array Repository and Data Analysis System (ARDAS).... more Mathematical models add more options for life sciences, cancer researchers Monday, February 12, 2007 Imagine being able to take a fantastic voyage into the human body and see how life evolves in a single cell, observe what triggers and sustains a beating heart – or perhaps journey into a tumor to witness how cancer destroys life and what doctors might be able to do to successfully treat it.... more UAppoint Issued Patent for Unique Appointment Scheduling Solution Wednesday, February 07, 2007 The way patients schedule appointments with their physician and dentist is about to change forever thanks to UAppoint, the online patient appointment scheduling service. UAppoint dramatically improves the operational efficiency of practices while inc reasing patient convenience and satisfaction. But unlike other systems, UAppoint's service is smart -- so smart, that it has been issued a patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office.... more HealthCare Partners Medical Group Deploys Wall Mounted Computer System as Part of Electronic Health Records (EHR) Software Deployment Wednesday, February 07, 2007 EnovateIT, the leading integrator of healthcare mobile computing solutions, collaborated with HealthCare Partners to provide an innovative new wall mount computer solution comprised of a PC blade securely mounted on an ergonomically adjustable arm. T he resulting solution improves clinician/patient interaction, enhances clinician workstation ergonomics and secures patient data.... more AdvancedMD Launches Online Product Tour Saturday, February 03, 2007 AdvancedMD Software, Inc. introduced a new online product tour that offers prospective customers a guided overview of AdvancedMD's industry leading medical billing software solution.... more more healthcare IT and biotechnology news releases... Back to top

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