iSOFT Group Ltd, a major Australian company providing healthcare IT solutions, announced that it has signed a contract to cooperate with NHS Wales in implementing the Individual Health Record (IHR) system across Wales. The IHR is going to make patient’s information, stored on iSOFT's GP solution, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded $792,000 to the University of Louisville School of Nursing to foster nursing informatics education for UofL's undergraduate and graduate nursing students as well as practicing nurses from...

Users of electronic health record (EHR) in the Czech Republic have reached two millions by the end of the summer 2010, which was the target of IZIP, the company providing EHR. By using web based eZK (electronic health record), currently more than the fifth of the population have the ability to acces...

A new study has showed that American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) incentives are not the main drive for doctors to use electronic health records (EHRs) but the actual derive is to achieve high quality and efficiency in their work. CapSite, healthcare technology research and advisory company...

CSC has been awarded certification from EuroRec, a non profit organization dedicated to promoting high quality electronic health record (EHR) systems. CSC is one of the first software providers in Europe to receive certification from EuroRec. Freddy Lykke, managing director of CSC’s European he...

The Ministry of Health in Singapore has recently signed a contract with Accenture to install the National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system. The ministry aims to go a step forward towards a national, unified, and integrated healthcare system. Officials from Health Ministry mentioned that the N...

Alert, a healthcare IT solutions provider from Portugal, announced that it has finished its first installation in the United States, following the implementation of its Alert Clinic solution in the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC). The Consortium is now the first healthcare organ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT (ONC), have recently released the "EHR & Meaningful Use" final rules managing stage one of the Medicare/Medicaid incentive program for meaningful use of certified electronic health record (EH...

Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) announced that diagnostic imaging and drug information systems have been added to its pre-implementation Certification Services. In addition, companies providing healthcare IT solutions are now able to have certifications for seven classes of technology. 'Infoway Cer...

After four successful PACS Admin seminars in Dubai, Egypt & Kuwait, ICT for Health along with its US partners OTech Imaging is organizing its 5th PACS seminar in the Middle East with a special emphasis on PACS, EHR implementation & strategies, particularly the open source WorldVista in Dubai, UAE ...