25 January 2006

Unravelling cable

Getting your structured cabling in order is important to installing new IT systems on any site, argues Rosemary McGlashon from
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25 January 2006

US speakers for first CfH nursing conference

US nursing experience of using clinical IT systems will be shared at Connecting for Health’s first conference for nurses and
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25 January 2006

Strand acquires Prism Risk Management

  Warrington, Cheshire, based mental health clinical software company Strand Technology has announced that it has acquired Prism Risk Management,
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25 January 2006

Electronic health card trial to begin in Germany

Germany is to start trialling an electronic health card at the end of April that will contains basic patient data
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24 January 2006

Epocrates launches in UK and Europe

Epocrates Inc., the US firm specialising in mobile systems for the healthcare industry, has announced its expansion into the global
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24 January 2006

Enfield PCT selects EMIS for super surgery

A North London primary care trust (PCT) has awarded primary care systems supplier EMIS a contract to supply the PCS system for a
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24 January 2006

New medical students to face computer test

  Many students applying to university to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude
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23 January 2006

CfH due for restructuring in DH shuffle

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has signalled that it will undergo restructuring later this year as part of a wider
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23 January 2006

GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’

The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up
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23 January 2006

More focus on research needed in NPfIT, says report

Leading academic medical researchers say that the Care Record Guarantee currently makes commitments that, if strictly interpreted would prevent a
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