Sunday, February 5th, 2012 3:23 pm

Computer based e-Rx reduces prescribing errors

Canberra (ip-192.com): Medication prescribing errors can be reduced by as much as 66 percent with the introduction of electronic prescribing technology in hospitals, new a study from Australia’s University of New South Wales (UNSW) shows. Electronic prescribing or e-prescribing (e-Rx) refers to computer-based transmission and filling of a prescription instead of written or faxed prescriptions. [...]

North America, Europe: MDM software sales set to grow

Stamford (ip-192.com): Worldwide master data management (MDM) software revenue will reach $1.9 billion in 2012, a 21 percent increase from 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. The software is used in organizations to ensure that only one version of the same master data is used in different parts of its operations. The market is forecast to [...]

Internet censorship: Web as a proxy server

Ann Arbor (ip-192.com): A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites. The system is called Telex, and it is the brainchild of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) and the [...]

IT trend: End-user application development

Stamford (ip-192.com): Citizen Developers will be building at least a quarter of new business applications by 2014, IT research and advisory firm Gartner says. End users are increasingly looking outside the IT organization for application development (AD) and in many cases are building applications themselves, due to ever increasing budget restrictions. "End-user application development (EUAD) [...]