Finding reliable health information online
Healthcare information is abundant online, but it can be hard to know what is current and medically correct. Joe Fernandez speaks to Health on the Net Foundation to see how it approaches the problem.
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Private GP providers’ technology
The private providers winning contracts to run general practices have information technology close to the top of their agendas, Fiona Barr reports.
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McKesson says ESR job done
As the NHS Electronic Staff Record nears completion, E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma speaks to Charmaine McDonald, MD of McKesson UK, the company behind the project.
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Microsoft gets serious about health
Dr Bill Crounse, MD, Microsoft’s senior worldwide director of health, tells E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma, that health is Microsoft’s fastest growing specialist group.
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Life in Europe to become ambient assisted
Philipp Grätzel reports from Berlin on developments in ambient assisted living, a fast-evolving field combining the IT, medicine, social care and housing industries.
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Building Europe’s e-health market
The European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General ICT for Health team speaks to E-Health Europe about the lead market initiative for e-health.
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To donate or not to donate?
Prime Minister Gordon Brown says every British citizen should automatically regarded as an organ donor through a ‘presumed consent’ scheme. Joe Fernandez reports.
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Countdown to the 18 week wait
By December 2008 all non-urgent NHS patients should start their hospital treatment within 18 weeks of referral, a major challenge with IT at the heart of providing the solutions.
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ASCC suppliers named
Connecting for Health has named the suppliers for three of the four categories of the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity framework initiative.
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Moving to hosted systems
Disagreement over extended access could impact the speed of movement to hosted systems. Fiona Barr reports.
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