Australia Ends $500 Million Electronic Medical Records Initiative

First United Kingdom ends their $17 billion electronic medical records initiative in 2011 and now Australia follows suit after 6 years of trying to fund their HealthSMART health information technology project and projected costs went from $318 million to $557 million. This Australian project was to have provided hospitals with software from Cerner, iSoft (now CSC) and InterSystems... the same system which also failed to be implemented by United Kingdom. I said it before and I'll say …

5/20/2012 0

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The Illusion of Healthcare Progress

Wellcome Film based in London has transferred numerous films dating from the early 20th century related to healthcare and medicine that anybody can view for free. Aside from the historical value, it is amazing that much of what we know and do now is not all that different than what was done in the 1920s. It makes me wonder sometimes what "progress" in healthcare actually has happened over the past century. In some things, tremendous change has occurred whereas in other areas of medi…

10/26/2011 0

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A New Method of Allergy Testing (Multi-Array Chip Technology)

A MIT researcher has developed a new and possibly more accurate blood test for allergies using multi-array chip technology. The paper is titled " Multidimensional analysis of the frequencies and rates of cytokine secretion from single cells by quantitative microengraving " and is published in the journal Lab on a Chip. This chip technology uses a microscopic engraving process to create thousands to millions of tiny wells (or multi-array) on a chip where a different "blood tes…

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