Category: Ireland

Dee wrote:
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Irish Blood Transfusion Service letter on stolen New York Laptop, originally uploaded by Kevin Peyton.
 
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Dee wrote:
Watching the evening news on TV - main story concerned the theft of a laptop holding over 167,000 patient donor records -  this happened in New York on 8th February. Sample data was being used on a new system upgrade that the Board is implementing.
In fairness to the Board, they seem to be […]

Dee wrote:
With a view to writing some more articles on the confluence of the web and healthcare - health 2.0, I’ve been reviewing previous articles written for the the Irish Medical Times and others on the subject.
These included
Blogging can be fun and informative (a blogging 101)
The broadband revolution is coming (sigh. 18 months later, […]

Kevin Peyton wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI recently had a short article published in Health Manager (July 2007 Issue), the quarterly publication from the Health Managment Institute of Ireland - a professional body for those involved in Health Care Management in the Republic of Ireland.
In the end, I may have […]

Kevin Peyton wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThis was the title of a recent piece from Siliconrepublic.com talking about current technology and IT usage in the Irish Healthcare system. It notes that during the recent General Election in this country, there were occasional thinly veiled references to “value for money” from […]

Kevin Peyton wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI can almost hear the howls of protest as the Irish Blogging community, if they did by chance hear the interview this morning with Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur; maybe not as loud as the howls from the Irish Medical community […]

Kevin Peyton wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptNew Irish web startup RevaHealthNetwork.com describe themselves as a matchmaking site for those interested in having medical procedures in other countries. Users sign up to the website and enter details of the procedure they want to have carried out and the country to which […]