7 March 2007

iSoft Germany expand lab services customer base

iSoft Deutschland has announced their first laboratory system deployments in the private sector and drug research sector, plus laboratory and
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7 March 2007

ExtraMed secure Ā£500,000 investment

Scottish based healthcare IT software developers ExtraMed have secured £500,000 of investment to further develop products for the NHS market.
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7 March 2007

Electronic referrals lack detail, study warns

A study comparing the quality of data content and clinical value of electronic and paper referrals in dermatology has found
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6 March 2007

Agreement reached on CHIA replacement

Ten London primary care trusts using BT’s troubled interim child health system have agreed to move to CSE-Servelec’s RiO solution
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6 March 2007

Exercising Choice

When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary
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6 March 2007

UN warning on rogue internet pharmacies

Unregulated internet pharmacies are posing a high risk to patients, according to the United Nation’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB).
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6 March 2007

Over 21000 patients search QoF data

Patients have carried out more than 21,000 searches of GP practice data from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) in
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5 March 2007

Unified communications in healthcare

Single, converged networks supporting IP telephony, videoconferencing, video-on-demand and contact centres offer benefits for healthcare that should not be ignored,
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5 March 2007

Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda

Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information
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5 March 2007

Electronic hospital discharge summary rolls out

Gloucestershire hospitals have come up with an answer to the age-old problem of getting discharge information over to GPs quickly
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