A majority of hospital CIOs are planning to increase their IT spend this year, according to a new survey.

IT consultancy, Dataweave, has successfully completed a major upgrade of key database and enterprise application software for Australian private hospital network, Healthe Care, and secured a contract to provide ongoing outsourced administration and support for Healthe Care’s databases, and other Oracle business applications.

The Royal Darwin Hospital and the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre in the Northern Territory has selected an emergency notification solution from Amcom Software for use when contacting staff in an emergency.

Australian-listed enterprise software provider, TechnologyOne has secured a key contract with Victoria’s largest not-for-profit private hospital group, Epworth HealthCare to deploy its enterprise suite of financials, supply chain, business intelligence, enterprise budgeting, works & assets, and customer relationship management (CRM) across Epworth’s operations.

Health systems provider, iSOFT, has signed a five-year deal with New Zealand’s Waikato District Health Board to provide a laboratory information system to improve the speed, accuracy and reporting of 6.5 million test results a year.

Australian health information technology vendor, the iSOFT Group has secured an extension of its contract with the UK’s NHS shared business services for iSOFT Business to host its Oracle finance and purchasing applications by an additional two years.

Healthcare solutions provider, iSOFT, is to enter the US market, announcing the move at this week’s HIMSS health IT conference in Atlanta and revealing what it says is a suite of “innovative solutions” which it will initially offer in the American market.

There will be widespread adoption of healthcare technology (EHR) globally throughout this year in a pivotal period for vendors, with some vendors likely to be pushed out of what is seen as an already competitive market.

Global health IT systems vendor, InterSystems has started deploying the Australian-developed InterSystems TrakCare connected health information system in the new Santiago Military Hospital in Chile that will enable electronic clinical files for soldiers to be made available whenever they seek attention at any of the health centres across Chile that are part of the country’s Army Health Command (Cosale) Network.

According to a California study of people hospitalized with the H1N1 flu, infants are most likely to be hospitalized with the illness, while people 50 years and older are most likely to die once in the hospital.