NSW special commissioner Peter Garling has prescribed an aggressive $704 million investment strategy to cure NSW Health's sick information technology systems, in a landmark review published late yesterday.
An open source specialist has launched an international project between national health agencies and government-funded organisations to develop interoperable platforms for electronic healthcare products and services.
In a boost to its already clear interest in e-health solutions, Microsoft announced this week plans to acquire Thai clinical workflow software developer Global Care Solutions.
By standardising on a common way to display medical data, Microsoft hopes to reduce the 600,000 errors that take place in US hospitals each year, many of them from medication mix-ups.
The National Health Service (NHS) plans to ditch its current e-mail system for Microsoft Outlook and Exchange 2007.
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