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Making Patient Care Safer: Lake Hospital System First in Ohio to Implement Automated Medication Dispensing Technology – April 23, 2007 Getting the right medication to the right patient at the right time seems a pretty straightforward proposition. However, the medication … Continued

Cedara Software and Varian Medical Systems Announce Licensing Agreement Treatment – May 9, 2007 Cedara Software, developer of medical software technologies for the global healthcare market, today announced its licensing agreement with Varian Medical Systems, giving Varian exclusive global rights … Continued

Conclusion: The rate of HIS adoption in Japanese medium and large hospitals is high compared to small hospitals and clinics, and this is attributable to the fact that the Japanese government placed the target for HIS adoption on key hospitals … Continued

Conclusion: The analytical concept of information infrastructure proves useful in dismantling a local/global separation, as it supports an empirical strategy of tracing out the concrete manifestations of how, where and when the “local” and the “global” are interdependent. (Source: International … Continued

Conclusions: Users have continued to make suggestions about their needs and requirements, and the EHR system has evolved to optimize ease of use and special functionalities for particular groups of users and particular subspecialties. Based on our experiences and the … Continued

Discussion: These two use cases proved the feasibility of opening public health data on the internet, and highlighted difficulties: SDMX, a full-featured solution, encouraged harmonization and reusability, sustainability, but required complex developments and tools; OData was much simpler to implement … Continued