3 February 2006

Birmingham HSCIC staff protest at relocation

Unhappy staff caught up the relocation needed to establish the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre have protested that the decision to
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3 February 2006

EPS pilot to restart after early glitch

One of England’s first electronic prescription service (EPS) pilots has been shut down for more than a month because of
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2 February 2006

Cyber carers

Colin Jervis investigates whether robot medics will ever evolve to the same level as their flesh-and-blood counterparts, in his second
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2 February 2006

Bush renews call for more use of healthcare IT

Health information technology advocates are hailing another call by US President George W. Bush for greater use of IT in
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2 February 2006

NHS Wales signs software deal with Microsoft

NHS Wales has signed a corporate licensing enterprise agreement with Microsoft covering the firm’s latest desktop and mobile computing software.
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2 February 2006

Staff workflow key to health IT success, says study

Healthcare IT implementations could risk failure if care is not taken of how users react to the tasks they are
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1 February 2006

Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’

A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS
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31 January 2006

PCT agrees to fund infrastructure upgrade

A primary care trust has agreed to fund replacement servers for practices in its area just days before an arbitration
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31 January 2006

Choose and Book target now March 2007

The target date for the implementation of Choose and Book has been moved back again, this time to March 2007.
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31 January 2006

‘Plymouth’ offered as an interim solution

Connecting for Health has shelved plans to provide NHS acute trusts across three regions in England with an integrated, strategic
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