29 March 2005

Legal issues with GP data transfer mooted at HC2005

GPs who move their electronic patient record data to new systems may have to keep the old ones running concurrently
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24 March 2005

Remote monitoring for heart patients in Newham

Newham University Hospital NHS Trust has officially launched a telemedicine service that allows patients to self-monitor their conditions from their
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23 March 2005

Visiting partner

E-Health Insider speaks to Joseph Ternullo, assistant director of Partners HealthCare in the US, about why telemedicine could be the
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23 March 2005

NPfIT’s new name already taken

The announcement that the NHS National Programme for IT is to become Connecting for Health appears to have immediately run
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23 March 2005

Practices to get choice of any LSP primary care system

In a major change of direction all GP practices in England are to get a choice between all the accredited
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23 March 2005

Northern Ireland unveils plans for electronic records

Northern Ireland has announced plans to develop its own electronic care record in a move which has led to calls
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23 March 2005

Hutton departure wounded NPfIT, says researcher

Many difficulties suffered by the National Programme for IT can be traced back to when Professor Peter Hutton resigned as
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22 March 2005

NPfIT to jettison its name…and some suppliers

The National Programme for IT is to change its name to Connecting for Health, NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced
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22 March 2005

Choose and Book need not stop PBC, say GPC

Concern over Choose and Book should not prevent GPs from getting involved with practice based commissioning, the British Medical Association’s
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22 March 2005

Only six GP practices connected to NHS Spine

Only six GP practices are currently connected to the national spine, a month after a rapid roll out was expected
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