25 March 2004

Granger promises to make PACS ‘deployable’

A promise to deliver at least 50% cuts in the pricing of Picture Archiving and Storage Systems (PACS) and make
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24 March 2004

Portsmouth pioneers reverse e-auction for generic drugs

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust claimed an e-health first this week with an announcement that it had completed the UK’s first
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24 March 2004

GP choice in IT systems debated

A senior officer from the National Programme for IT said he would have failed and the programme would have failed
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22 March 2004

Deputy CMO joins national programme

Deputy chief medical officer, Aidan Halligan, has joined the National Programme for IT, taking personal responsibility for delivering clinical engagement
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22 March 2004

Award for iSOFT SingHealth EMR implementation

Singapore Health Services (SingHealth), the largest healthcare provider in Singapore has received a prestigious award for best of IT to
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18 March 2004

Uncertainty shrouds EMIS negotiations

Almost two months after GP software market leader EMIS first publicly stated that the company would not sign contracts with Local
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18 March 2004

Data spine key to Patient’s Passport, say Tories

Under a Conservative government the NHS Care Record Service would become the key tool enabling the introduction of the proposed
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18 March 2004

CHI delivers “must do better” verdict on information use

Acute trusts need to improve the collection and use of good quality information, according to the Commission for Health Improvement
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17 March 2004

Government says open source not a ‘hype bubble’

The Office of the e-Envoy has issued an updated consultation paper on the use of open source software (OSS) by
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16 March 2004

Agency due to lead NHS IT change management scrapped

The Government is to scrap the NHS Modernisation Agency (MA), the agency charged with delivering the change management programme that
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