CIOs focus on the business case while facing 'authority erosion'
The ability to establish and continually re-evaluate the business case, which implies a fundamental understanding...GE Healthcare enters agreement with Canadian health authority
The VIHA will receive GE's most advanced ultrasound technologies and establish new clinical workflow and admin...Legal Action against Authority Regarding Outbreak of Legionnaires’ Diseas
The outbreak of Legionnaires ’ disease that has been responsible for claiming seven lives in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, in 2002 has created much controversy and confusion as a council official has been charged with manslaughter yesterday in connection//. The design service manager for Barrow borough council has also been charged with breaching health and safety regulations. Those who died...Authority to Health Staff, To Scan Patient Medical Records
Patients medical records will now be open to checking by health workers, who have recently been given the power to take a peek at the records to verify if patients// have undergone the required diagnostic tests, especially in cases of severe health conditions such as high BP. This is a move by the Scottish government to spruce up their dwindling health record. This will certainly g...Alberta pharmacists vested with authority to prescribe
The provincial government has permitted the Alberta pharmacists to prescribe drugs and administer vaccines, without a doctor’s approval//. But drugs under the narcotics category or addictive drugs will still need a doctor’s approval. Now, beginning fall, pharmacists who have undergone a full-fledged training program can prescribe medicines for ailments like asthma and high blood press...States Urged to Agree on Cross-border Health Authority
The Federal Health Minister has said that he would prefer not step in to fast-track a merger between Albury-Wodonga's health services//. This idea was proposed during a meeting with Tony Abbott and Goulburn Murray politicians yesterday. A decade of talks between the New South Wales and Victorian governments has still not revealed a common plan towards working of the health servi...Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ‘authority’, Sir Roy was Not Off the Mak
A recent report in the Medical Journal has cast aspersions on the findings of a cot death study that had brought infamy to the pediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow// A paper published in 2005 in the medical journal, The Lancet, has indicated that most of the second infant deaths occurring in families who had lost the first baby also due to SIDS, could be due to natural causes. This w...