29 September 2005

After Katrina

An unprecedented mobilisation of information technology could be just what the doctor ordered to prevent a major public health crisis
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29 September 2005

GE to buy IDX for £681 million

General Electric Co.’s healthcare unit is to buy US health IT software supplier IDX Systems Corp. in a deal worth
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29 September 2005

CfH approaches 2,000th deployment

Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of
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29 September 2005

Accreditation for e-prescription service software

Pharmacy software specialist, Systems Solutions, has received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health to transmit prescriptions electronically through N3, the
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28 September 2005

Code red

Daloni Carlisle reports on how the often neglected discipline of clinical coding is becoming vital to the financial health of
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28 September 2005

Adults with learning difficulties excluded

The first national survey of adults with learning difficulties in England has highlighted the extent to which they face hardship
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28 September 2005

Private practice management system launched

  A new practice management system for the private healthcare sector has been launched by PHF Services Ltd, designed to
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28 September 2005

Speech recognition helps King’s meet cancer target

Speech recognition technology has helped produce a 50% reduction in diagnostic reporting times according to a report of a recent
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27 September 2005

GP system choice being blocked and mocked

A Hertfordshire IT manager reported that he was laughed at when he told his local service provider (LSP) that he
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27 September 2005

Every PCT to miss Choose and Book target

The Department of Health (DH) has admitted that not a single primary care trust in England is likely to be
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