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2014 Healthcare Informatics Top 100

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Every year Healthcare Informatics ranks the 100 vendors with the highest revenues derived from healthcare IT products and services earned in the U.S. based on revenue information from the previous year. All companies meeting this criteria are eligible to participate by submitting their data. [stwthumb size=”xlg”]http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/hci100/2014-hci-100-list[/stwthumb] [follow_me]

New UK Informatics Federation for BCS, UKCHIP and IHRIM

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A new UK Informatics Federation was launched by BCS, UKCHIP and IHRIM last month at HC2014. The Federation aims to improve the professional standing and reputation of health and care informaticians. UKI will  ……. Provide Leadership of the overall profession as the overarching collaborative initiative for health and care informatics for the UK […]

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OpenClinical

has been created to:

  • Promote decision support, clinical workflow and other knowledge management technologies in patient care and clinical research;
  • Disseminate methods and tools for building healthcare knowledge applications that comply with the highest quality, safety and ethical standards;
  • Build a community of individuals, organisations and commercial companies who believe in the value of knowledge management, and who wish to contribute to the definition and adoption of open technical standards for medical applications.

The OpenClinical Web site is aimed in particular at healthcare professionals and managers, medical informaticians and computer scientists and industry.  A “one-stop shop” for anyone interested in learning about and tracking developments on advanced knowledge management technologies for healthcare such as point-of-care decision support systems, “intelligent” guidelines and clinical workflow.

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ASSIST (Association for Informatics Professionals in Health and Social Care)

is a professional association within the British Computer Society (BCS) for those working in and for informatics in healthcare and social care.

Its objective is to develop professionalism and professional standards, and to work with other bodies including government to provide a voice for informatics professionals.

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