NHS Sets Out Case for Shared Services
The NHS has completed the outline business case (OBC) for an ambitious project to introduce a single national "state of the art", web-enabled finance and e-procurement system, which it believes could save the service £300m a year. Following government approval of the OBC an OJEC is due to be placed late in September. Responses will […]
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PDA Programme Cuts Nursing Paperwork by
A group of American community-based nurses say that using personal digital assistants cuts time spent on their "paperwork" by up to 50% and improves both the speed and accuracy of documentation. The programme, which is attracting international attention, also makes decision support software, backed by extensive medical resources, available to the nurses while they are […]
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Sonablate Receives European and Japanese
Focus Surgery Inc., has received two regulatory approvals for its Sonablate 500 System, a system that performs prostrate imaging and treatment using ultrasound Using FSI's patented ultrasound transducer technology, the SB-500 performs diagnostic level imaging of the prostate and performs minimally invasive image-guided treatment of both benign and cancerous prostate tissue using high intensity focused […]
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