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Podcast: John Glaser, CEO of Siemens Health Services
Tue 6th March 2012
US - Anthony Guerra, HealthSystemCIO.com, 28 February 2012. Glaser talks about moving away from a transaction-based model, how vendors can best integrate customer requests into their strategic plans, and the increasing importance of incorporating business intelligence and analytics into the overall strategy. He also discusses how Siemens has handled the healthcare IT workforce shortage, and why leaders need to remember what healthcare IT is all about. http://healthsystemcio.com/2012/02/28/john-glaser-ceo-siemens-health-ser...   more

Overview of Healthcare Mobility Solutions Market in Australia
Fri 16th September 2011
Overview of Healthcare Mobility Solutions Market in Australia. Frost and Sullivan, 25 August 2011. Market Engineering research service segment provides healthcare mobility solutions market in Australia. http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/report-toc.pag?Src=RSS&repid=P553-01-00-00-00   more

Facilitating Virtualized Research: The Oracle Health Sciences Cloud
Wed 4th May 2011
The Oracle Health Sciences Cloud (OHSC) is a vertical cloud serving the research needs of the healthcare and life sciences industries that is open to the public Internet for global access by thousands of sites in different organizations, with data and integrations flowing in and out, yet is still highly secure and private.     more

Cloud Computing, Digital Signatures & Speed Clinical Trials
Thu 28th April 2011
New whitepaper demonstrates use of interoperable digital identities, digital signatures and cloud computing. http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/cloud-computing-digital-signatures-speed-clinical-trials   more

PCEHR Concept of Operations
Tue 19th April 2011
AU - Document outlines workings of the Australian PCEHR system, its benefits, structure and privacy principles in enough detail to allow considered discussion. Feedback may be submitted until 31 May 2011. More information.   more

New Zealand's National Health IT Plan
Tue 16th November 2010
New Zealand has lofty health IT goals. These include the establishment of regional health boards to oversee the implementation of health IT, as well as the allocation of a single portable electronic healthcare record for all citizens by 2014.    more

Remaking the NHS
Tue 16th November 2010
The British have been well-served by the NHS since the immediate post-war period. However it's a huge and often unwieldy bureaucracy. This paper, authored in the middle of 2010, sets out how the UK plans to remake its national health insurance service.   more

Electronic Health Information and Privacy Survey: What Canadians Think — 2007

Mon 15th November 2010
Canada Health Infoway, Health Canada and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada polled Canadians about what they thought of the privacy aspects of the growing focus on electronic health. The results are that Canadians are increasingly bullish about electronic health, and in particular its potential to minimise mistakes in treatment and prescribing of medications.       more

The relationship between electronic healthcare records and patient safety
Mon 15th November 2010
Patient safety is one of an electronic healthcare record's great calling cards. This report, from Canada Health Infoway, calls into question that link, saying that the scientific evidence connecting EHR's to improvements in patient safety is incomplete.   The report also canvases the fact that:    EHRs can sometimes compromise patient safety EHRs trigger profound cultural and organisational changes in healthcare delivery Standards are vital for EHR safety Expectations about just what EHRs can achieve needs to be realistic The...   more

Canada's vision for ehealth 2015
Mon 15th November 2010
Since 2001 Canada Health Infoway has been working to deliver ehealth to Canadian citizens through personalised, portable electronic healthcare records.  This document, which was initiated in 2006, takes the next step and looks at how the Canadian ehealth system can evolve over the coming decade. Canada's health budget runs to some $US100 billion, making it the size of a top ten Fortune 500 company. Despite this, the Canadian government has said that it has under-invested in ehealth expenditure, something that it is looking to rectify...   more
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