28 February 2006

Authorities flag up problems ahead for C+B plans

Health authorities have until the middle of March to submit plans for meeting the government’s Choose and Book targets but
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28 February 2006

London child health system led to vaccination problems

Problems with the introduction of a new child health information system, provided under NHS Connecting for Health to ten PCTs
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28 February 2006

Euroking delivers maternity across Pennine hospitals

The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has extended use of its EuroKing Miracle maternity software to support all four of
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28 February 2006

NHS 24 cuts numbers of ‘call-backs’

Scotland’s health advice helpline NHS 24 has reduced the percentage of ‘call-backs’ to patients to less than 20% from a
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28 February 2006

OpenEHR Foundation launches international standard

An open-source community founded in University College London has produced the first blueprint of an international electronic record standard that
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27 February 2006

Technology ‘should be used in long term conditions’

Technology should be used in several ways to help people who have long-term conditions care for themselves, although caution must
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24 February 2006

Agfa launches mobile version of Impax 6.0 PACS

Agfa has launched an “ultra thin” mobile version of its Impax 6.0 picture archiving and communications system (PACS) which is
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23 February 2006

Marching on

E-Health Insider caught up with Accenture's health chief Ken Lacey at HIMSS in San Diego and discussed the LSP's progress
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23 February 2006

Cornwall NHS staff get VoIP phone badges

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has issued its staff with voice-activated handsfree ‘badges’, worn around the neck on a lanyard,
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23 February 2006

Doctors ethics committee undecided on NCRS consent

The British Medical Association’s ethics committee has decided not to back any consent model for the NHS Care Records Service
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