16 March 2006

Healthcare bears brunt of spyware attacks

The healthcare and pharmaceutical industry sector is more likely than any other to come under attack from spyware, an international
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16 March 2006

Bedfordshire and Luton opt for CareNotes system

Bedfordshire and Luton Mental Health and Social Care Partnership NHS Trust has signed up to use Strand Technology’s CareNotes electronic
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15 March 2006

Ascribe buys into the PAS market

Ascribe, the healthcare IT group, today announced its entry into the patient administration system market with the acquisition of Barwick
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15 March 2006

Asthma phone reviews won’t count for QOF

Telephone reviews for patients with asthma cannot count towards Quality and Outcome Framework targets, national arbitrators have ruled. The national
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15 March 2006

Online medical journal access for NHS Wales

Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has announced that it is making another 90 online peer-reviewed journals available through
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14 March 2006

‘Unworkable’ NCRS user policy to be replaced

The user policy for the NHS Care Records Service that practices were required to sign up to when they received
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14 March 2006

Implementation schedule slips in South

The introduction of the NHS Care Records Service in the South of England is set to be delayed following a
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14 March 2006

GPASS users doubt future use in national records

Ministerial claims that the troubled GP system GPASS will be central to the development of the national electronic single record
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14 March 2006

System C named in best employers list

Healthcare IT systems and services specialists, System C Healthcare, has been ranked as one of the best small/medium enterprise companies
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14 March 2006

Dr Foster offers data on repeat admissions

 Medical data firm Dr Foster intelligence is offering PCTs a web-based tool that can identify patients and conditions with high
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