23 October 2006

DH planning telecare pilot for one million people

The Department of Health (DH) is to soon seek expressions of interest for a large scale project examining how technology
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23 October 2006

Hounslow PCT launches remote access

Network integration specialist Scalable Networks has teamed up with Hounslow Primary Care Trust to set up a new home and
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20 October 2006

One millionth Choose and Book referral reached

Health minister Lord Warner today announced that one million referrals to specialist care have been made through the Choose and
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20 October 2006

Tiny ‘plaster’ health monitoring chip gets closer

Medical technology firm Toumaz Technology has released the Sensium modular system, a monitoring infrastructure that will support a device small enough to
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20 October 2006

Use technology more for home care, says report

A report looking at the amount of time professional carers should give to patients with long term conditions has encouraged trusts
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19 October 2006

Fujitsu’s Cerner delays mount in the South

Three more trusts have had to postpone Fujitsu implementations of Cerner Millennium in the South at short notice, as go-live
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19 October 2006

NHS Direct patient database approaches first birthday

NHS Direct, the health service’s telephone and online advice service will celebrate the first birthday of its single national database
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18 October 2006

CSC says it will implement iPM at Bradford in six months

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which had gone outside the NHS National Programme for IT to procure for a
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18 October 2006

Academics set up wiki to monitor NHS IT

The 23 academics who wrote to Parliament outlining their concerns about the progress of the National Programme for IT have
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17 October 2006

CfH wields axe on funding Clinical Evidence

Clinical Evidence will no longer be freely available to clinicians in England after NHS Connecting for Health failed to agree
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