16 January 2006

Furore over Patriot Act power to seize records

Doctors in the US have reacted angrily to news that patients’ medical records could be seized for investigation without warrant
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13 January 2006

Traffic doubles on new NHS24 website

The Scottish health helpline NHS24 has set up a new-look website with health advice and doubled the number of hits
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13 January 2006

C+B certificate granted for MedWay PAS

Healthcare systems and solutions specialists, System C, has achieved Choose and Book compliance certification from NHS Connecting for Health for
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12 January 2006

CSC implements new theatre system at Royal Liverpool

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest trust to go live with a new theatre
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12 January 2006

Robot revolution

Colin Jervis, director of Kinetic Consulting, looks at how robots are being used on wards and in operating theatres in
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12 January 2006

Hammersmith chooses Technidata for blood transfusion

Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a contract with Technidata to replace its two existing blood transfusion systems with TD-BloodBank,
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12 January 2006

Asthma sufferers get help from space

  Mobile phone users with asthma in south London are getting pollution alerts via SMS thanks to satellite technology from
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11 January 2006

Good outlook for IP VPNs in European healthcare

Industry analysts Frost & Sullivan have predicted positive, if qualified, growth of Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IP VPNs)  in healthcare
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11 January 2006

Call for wider use of decision support

A charity is calling for more widespread use of decision support systems in general practice after a survey it commissioned
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10 January 2006

GP calls for judicial review of NCRS consent

A GP is calling for a judicial review of the government’s consent plans for the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS).
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