27 August 2004

Hull green lights A&E patient progress software

IT staff at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust have developed an alert system for the A&E department that displays each
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26 August 2004

The productivity guessing game

Introducing new IT systems should improve productivity - but how will the NHS know? Healthcare commentator, Roy Lilley, doubts whether
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26 August 2004

Sun awarded ‘tactical’ NHS desktop contract

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has concluded an evaluation project with Sun Microsystems over the potential use of Sun’s
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25 August 2004

Market for health IT most favourable for big business

The European market for health information systems is likely to expand rapidly, but a number of difficulties stand in the
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25 August 2004

EMIS hits back at ‘speculation and misrepresentation’

Leading UK primary care IT supplier EMIS has issued new guidance to practices using its systems stating the firm’s long-term
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24 August 2004

Partnership may make e-health widely available in US

Allscripts, whose strategic partners include HP and Microsoft, has just announced a new link with US-based clinical directory Medem which
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23 August 2004

Biometric security used to access prison health records

Doctors working in prisons covered by Southwest Dorset Primary Care Trust (SWDPCT) are being asked to use biometric security to
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20 August 2004

Doctors should see patients by e-mail, researchers say

Research published in the BMJ today has found that doctors and patients are both missing out on the benefits that
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19 August 2004

Agfa set to replace GE on PACS in North East and Eastern

Three months after health minister John Hutton announced the award of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) contracts for the
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19 August 2004

Getting ready for the leap forward

With the National Programme for IT now geared up for delivery, Paul Charnley, regional implementation director for the North West
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