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[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
eHealth is a work in progress. Many countries have named a national coordinator or taskforce, or at a minimum assigned the subject to the tasks of the national health ministry. But no national system provides all of the e-Health services at the present time
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
During the past two decades, computers have revolutionised the way we live. The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are now part of every critical infrastructure, from telecommunication to banking to transportation.
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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e-Prescribing is the process of medication prescribing in an outpatient setting, using an ambulatory Computerised Physician Order Entry systems application linked with clinical decision support that can in addition electronically send prescriptions or prescription-related information directly with the pharmacies or pharmacy benefit managers
New Hampshire is going to become the first state to allow doctors, clinics and hospitals for using electronic prescription system by 2008. Government’s John Lynch’s Citizens Health Initiative, group of doctors, is leading the way of e-prescriptions.
A group of pharmaceutical vendors has developed e-government system to report files. The FDA incident reporting system will allow pharmaceutical vendors to file electronics reports on the Food and Drug Administration, which will include loss, theft and other problems related with drug samples.
Space Hospitals, a Chennai based company in India has got involved in an extention activity of providing medical care to rural areas. Accordingly it has linked 13 super speciality hospitals with 60 of its satellite medical centres, inter connecting, various parts of the country.
The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), US recently worked out on the availability of health and information technology items and services for the purpose of improving electronic prescribing and electronic health records (EHR) capabilities.
Sioux Falls-based Avera Health will get two hefty federal grants for expanding its efforts in telemedicine.
Sioux Falls-based Avera Health will get two hefty federal grants for expanding its efforts in telemedicine.
A $481,000 federal grant to Queen’s will help establish a network with a Big Island site, as a result of which physicians at the Queen’s Medical Center may soon be uating and suggesting treatment for trauma patients at the North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea.
A $481,000 federal grant to Queen’s will help establish a network with a Big Island site, as a result of which physicians at the Queen’s Medical Center may soon be uating and suggesting treatment for trauma patients at the North Hawaii Community Hospital in Waimea.
