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How is the digitization of information impacting across the health service?
In a survey of 200 patients and their representatives, clinicians and other healthcare professionals (librarians and IT staff) from across eight NHS trusts, Professor Ann Blandford and Professor Peter Lunt have looked at the growing need to understand how digitisation of health information will impact upon patients, staff and managers across the... view more... (2007-04-26)
Eminent health economist comes home to head up Wessex Institute
Eminent health economist, Professor James Raftery, has been appointed as the new Director of the Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development (WIHRD) at the University of Southampton's School of Medicine. Professor Raftery, who is currently Director of the Health Economics Facility at the University of Birmingham, takes up his new post on... view more... (2005-03-08)
European Information Centre on Marine Science and Technology - EurOcean gets three new members
The Flanders Marine Institute (Belgium), the Institute of Oceanology - Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) and the Marine Institute (Ireland) have decided to become members of EurOcean, European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology, joining the two founding member organisations: the Foundation for Science and Technology... view more... (2004-05-12)
IT and The Law - What`S The Score?
A pioneering centre dedicated to tackling the new legal challenges associated with the fast-moving world of information technology will open at the University of Bristol this summer [June 1, 2002]. This is a cross-disciplinary venture building on existing strengths in the Faculties of Law and Engineering and Computer Sciences. The new Centre will... view more... (2002-03-07)
University of Ulster Helping Change The Face of Healthcare
University of Ulster researchers are working with clinicians at one of Northern Ireland's leading hospitals on novel ways to harness information and communication technology to provide a better service to patients. view more (2004-12-15)
Karlstad University and Ericsson in new global collaboration
At the same time as the Third World is expected to be the next huge market for western IT giants, it is also becoming more and more evident that information technology can help ameliorate the situation for the poorest of the poor. If it is adapted to their needs. Efficient communication has long been seen as a fundamental source of change and... view more... (2003-02-28)
SFI announces EUR43.4 million in awards to researchers
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has announced awards of EUR43.4 million in its most recent round of funding approvals. The awards have been allocated to 45 Investigators and their teams. These researchers will be based in universities and institutes of technology in Ireland. They all work in the research fields underpinning biotechnology and... view more... (2003-02-25)
Physician use of HIT in hospitals linked to fewer deaths and complications, lower costs
A study published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine, finds that when physicians in hospitals use health information technology (health IT) to its full potential there are fewer deaths, fewer complications, and lower health care costs. view more (2009-01-27)
Pursuing the future of personal genomics
Giving Nobel Laureate James Watson his personal genome was just the beginning. In a future that promises similar information to much of the population, ethicists, scientists and physicians are only beginning to understand and consider the possibilities. view more (2007-09-21)
Quality of health information on the internet has improved
The quality of health information on the internet has improved over the past few years despite concerns over poor quality and its possible consequences, concludes a study in this week's BMJ. view more (2002-03-06)
IS NHSnet THE BEST CHOICE FOR IMPROVING PATIENT CARE?
The introduction of a dedicated NHS-wide network (NHSnet) to improve patient care is already in progress. Yet concerns about the security of patient information, connection and user charges may lead to poor uptake, particularly by general practice. Chadwick and colleagues believe they have found a safer and more cost-effective system, using... view more... (2000-09-06)
Use of Information Technology is Minimal in Nursing Homes
In short-term health care settings, sophisticated information technology (IT) systems assist in the diagnosis of patients, support care management, and enhance adherence to clinical guidelines. view more (2008-04-09)
Millennium Technology Prize received over 70 nominations
More than 70 innovators from around the world, who have developed technology which improves people's quality of life, have been nominated for the first-ever Millennium Technology Prize. The Prize will be awarded next summer in Finland. The nomination period for the one million euro prize closed at the end of December 2003. The Finnish Technology... view more... (2004-01-05)
ICSU/CODATA launch online forum for World Summit on the Information Society
11 February 2003 (Paris, France) - The International Council for Science (ICSU) and the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) today launched an 'open access' online forum to generate discussion from the international science and technology community in the lead-up to the UN World Summit on the Information Society... view more... (2003-02-12)
New RFID technology tracks and monitors nuclear materials
Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices have widely been used for tracking for years; recently, scientists from U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a unique tracking technology that also monitors the environmental and physical conditions of containers of nuclear materials in storage and transportation. view more (2009-03-25)
Research has shed light on the computer frustrations that plague older adults
A number of evolving social changes highlight the importance of making computer technology accessible and usable for older adults. For instance, older adults are using email increasingly to keep up their social contact with others and are using the Internet to look up health information. view more (2007-03-19)
Direct online access to full texts of British Patents
A vast amount of technical knowledge is contained in patents and utility models. More than 600,000 new patent applications per year worldwide add to this huge information pool. No other source of information covers almost any technological subject area in this concentrated form. Patent files containing technology information allow searches for the... view more... (2005-03-21)
Berners-Lee Wins Inaugural Millennium Technology Prize
World Wide Web Inventor Receives One Million Euros Prize from Finnish Technology Award Foundation World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee was today named recipient of the first-ever Millennium Technology Prize. The honour, which is accompanied by one million euros, is bestowed by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation as international... view more... (2004-04-15)
Delivering Information Society technologies to the desktop
The IST Results e-bulletin is now available, delivering news of emerging innovations from the Information Society Technologies (IST) initiative to users in a wide range of markets and research sectors. This free bi-weekly publication, delivered direct to the desktop, aims to raise the visibility of the results of EU-funded IST research (new... view more... (2003-07-07)
The impact of online health on GPs' roles
Patients are frequently using the Internet to find health information and this is forcing GPs to re-evaluate their role. view more (2005-03-21)
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