Archive 2000

Monday, 07 June 2004

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• A wireless doctor is in the house
• Airline readies telemedicine tools  
• FreePM Releases version 0.5.2b (MedMan)
• Secret plan to spy on all British phone calls
• Politicians line up against Euro email snooping laws
• United Nations Millennium Action Plan: Health InterNetwork
• OIO moves forward with 0.9.5 release  
• Major step forward in e-prescriptions: Lord Hunt announces electronic transmission of prescription pilots shortlist — UK
• The Journal of Open Source Medical Computing (JOSMC)
• Bioinformatic platform market is $52 million a year and will reach $110 million by 2004
• Free Software Foundation Europe
• Digital signatures may become law — UK
• National electronic Library for Health goes live — UK 
• WHO’s plan to police health websites rejected  
• Europe Nixes Software Patents  
• Europe Starts Debate on Patents  
• Stallman Replies to VistA Licensing Issues  
• Information on web to be made more streamlined  
• Kitemarks and Kitchen Table Web Sites
• ICANN Approves Seven New TLDs: Dot-Health Not Among Them  
• RIP just got scarier  
• OpenClinical — Knowledge Management for Medical Care  
• FreeMed 0.2.0 (Phoenix) Released  
• Train laptop op saves patient's life  
• Dreaming about nano healthcare  
• IBM sounds death knell for closed standards
• Becoming your own hospital
• FreePM forges into a wide open frontier  
• Possible VistA licensing controversy?
• Ananova announces 'Oscars' of technology — UK 
• Study shows handheld prescribing devices help avoid medication errors — US 
• Research indicates use of the Internet is key for marketing and education on antihypertensives — US
• Hungary launches its first "website hospital"
• New leadership for the Littlefish Project
• World watches as 'Safe Harbour' laws go live
• United States and European Union take another step toward a national privacy law
• MUMPS (M) Compiler and Interpreter GPL'ed  
• Your Guide to E-Health — new eBook released  
• Europe to investigate legality of RIP  
• Medical slides gallery
• Dot-Health: a new top-level domain
• Proposal for a comprehensive multi-lingual patient information system — UK 
• British Library to launch digital database — UK 
• New kiosks to give health advice online
• Health Level Seven to release first XML-based standard for healthcare
• Internet helps consultants diagnose from a distance
• Report from the Internet Healthcare Coalition's Annual Conference: eHealthcare Gets a Dose of Reality
• X-Med has Linux medical software now
• Norway wants Internet access for all
• British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management goes online
• Satellite safe Europe
• "Consumers vs Webmasters" ethics survey results
• UK snoop law may conflict with EU Human Rights Act
• eHealth Codes of Ethics: main developers reach consensus
• Government appoints 'Webmaster General'
• Telco experts to thrash out wireless local loop standards
• RFC: Journal of Open Source Medical Software
• Germany quashes net tax plan
• Draft Mental Health Information Strategy — consultation process
• Red Hat reports narrowing losses
• Lending doctors a hand(held)
• Prescriptions on email in the pipeline
• RCSEd diploma and certificate course in medical informatics
• BMJ Informatics Collections
• Mumps Compiler version 2.0
• Data protection: Commission adopts decisions recognising adequacy of regimes in US, Switzerland and Hungary
• RIP Bill is passed and present
• Internet signatures become legal
• GNUMed Alpha Server possible in October 2000
• EC opens its mind to open source  
• AMA delegates sort through patient email issues
• Good Electronic Health Record Update  
• Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards 2001 - UK  
• MedCERTAIN - The future European trustmark for reliable health information  
• Minoru Development Corporation Announce DocScope Open Source Project — Canada 
• Special Interest Group in Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association Web Site  
• Open Source Health Care Alliance Forum Summary — Italy 
• UK U-Turn on Electronic Communications Bill — UK 
• eHealth Code of Ethics
• Diffuse Project — European Commission Information Society Technologies programme — Finland
• Biomed Central - Peer Reviewed Open Access Publishing on the Internet — UK
• US Doctors Shun the Net — US
• Diploma in Medical Informatics — UK 
• Advisory Report on the Patient and the Internet — Netherlands
• E-community on a shoe string - Open Source — Malaysia
• Electronic Insurance Medical Reports — UK 
• Canadian Institute for Health Information — Roadmap Initiative 
• CIPRI and HOST announce consolidation — USA
• TOREX acquires SMS European businesses 
• HON introduces the 'active code' 
• Measuring functional health status with the COOP/WONCA Charts
• Access your email from anywhere in the world
• University Hospital Geneva - new EHR System
• eHealth Code of Ethics Draft launched
• eHealth Ethics Summit Reaches Consensus, Drafts International Code of Ethics
• NetPrints: eBMJ's poetic battle cry
• How to write a successful FP5 proposal
• Internet Healthcare Coalition To Host e-Health Ethics Summit
• Ethics of biomedical research in developing countries: a paper by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
• OpenGALEN: GALEN goes Open Source
• GEHR, Littlefish Project and Open Source
• HON Survey October-November 99
• HISCOM and POLYDOC to collaborate on medical knowledge management systems
• McKessonHBOC buys European healthcare businesses
• Public Health Knowledge
• HEBSWeb new sectors
• Online lessons in informatics
• Directory of telemedicine vendors
• Health related terminology on the Net
• HON March-April 1999 Survey results
• Bernard Richards receives honour
• Windows based smart card
• "The Internet is for everyone"
• Triennial World Congress on Health Informatics (Medinfo 2001) comes to UK
• Neo-Luddites and revolutionaries
• BMJ censored
• What can 'Jini' do for medicine?
• Abilene gets underway
• Mail TV
• The 1998 Mill Hill Essays
• 'Self diagnosis chip from Imperial College London