Health Informatics Forum

The BBC is running a story on MP critism of the NHS Connecting for Health Programme:  Fears over NHS e-records system The NHS IT project is costing £6.8bn A key plank of the £6.8bn NHS IT upgrade project in England has come under attack from MPs.The Health Committee said there was

  Google is losing the boss of its Google Health project, Adam Bosworth. Danny Sullivan received the following statement from Google: Adam is a great talent and was instrumental in starting Google Health. He is now on vacation and has decided to pursue other opportunities after that. Marissa Mayer is taking over

Register now for the 2007 Royal Society of Medicine PDA and Smartphone Workshop in London on October 9th.The workshop aims to cover a wide range of topics about mobile computing in healthcare and is being run by Dr Mo Al-Ubaydli and myself. Register here.

CNET has a short peice about Microsoft’s new Common User Interface project and the work they are doing with the UK’s NHS. They also mention Intel’s Mobile Clinical Assistant project and quote Tim Smokoff, general manager of Microsoft’s health care unit saying we can expect more aquisitions in addition to recent the purchase of MedStory

Hi Folks, Welcome to the new Health Informatics Blog! This blog will be covering news and developments in the field of Health Informatics. I’m a Lecturer in Health Informatics at Otago University in New Zealand and am currently working on a PhD looking at EHR and e-Learning standards.