Kyle Hardy

Ozcare, a non-profit health and community services provider in Queensland, has launched a new system designed to improve care by sending alerts and other notifications to nurses carrying mobile devices.

Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in early 2009, and the definition of “meaningful use” of an EMR, the healthcare CIO is looking at a much larger range of responsibilities.


Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) is working in partnership with IT provider Carefx Corp. on a pilot project to improve and simplify the process of placing pathology orders at the point of care.

Hospedia, a UK-based provider of patient bedside entertainment, has decided to renew its patient bedside terminals in more than 150 NHS hospitals across the UK with a new contract with JAOtech.

Nuance Communications, Inc., a provider of speech solutions, will start four project implementations for its trust-wide, computer aided medical transcription solution (CAMT), eScription.

The Scotland National Health System (NHS) will be launching a new health IT suite to move along the nation's healthcare integration goals.

The Great Ormond Street Hospital for children has recently announced the deployment of a new communications and results reporting solution aimed at improving patient test ordering.

St. Jansdal Hospital in the Netherlands has extended its contract with Sydney-based iSOFT’s Lorenzo patient management solution for a further three years, in a deal worth €4.5 million.

MacPractice, the major Apple developer of practice management and clinical software on Macs and iPhones for medical and dental offices, has launched new iPad integration solutions that are expect to allow doctors and dentists to use all MacPractice software on an iPad.

Ottawa's Queensway Carleton Hospital (QCH) has agreed to a new contract with Accentus, a provider of medical dictation and transcription products.