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23 July 2003

ISoft and Torex Announce Merger Plans

iSoft and Torex, two of the UK’s leading health IT firms announced this week that they intended to merge to
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23 July 2003

Long Term Approach to IT Reform for NHS Wales

A long term commitment to transforming healthcare using information and IT is outlined in NHS Wales’ new strategy, Informing Healthcare.
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21 July 2003

Clinician Involvement Essential in IT Planning Says BMJ

The essential importance of involving frontline clinicians in the evolution of their workplace information systems is underlined this week in
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17 July 2003

SNOMED ā€˜Highly Unlikelyā€™ to Generate Revenue for NHS

Expected revenues from the NHS’ collaboration on SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT) have not been realised and the financial formula used
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17 July 2003

Information Vital to Extending Patient Choice

Health Secretary John Reid has upped the ante on the Government’s patient choice agenda and the electronic appointment booking targets,
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16 July 2003

Dr Gwyn Thomas: The NHSIA as a Service Provider

Understanding the complex shifting relationship between the NHS Information Authority and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS
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15 July 2003

E-prescribing Arrives for Out-of-Hours GPs

A major step towards electronic prescribing for out-of-hours (OOH) doctors in England has been taken with the launch of new
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14 July 2003

Virtual Outreach Consultations Evaluated

Virtual outreach consultations across video conference links save time and money for patients but incur greater costs for the NHS
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10 July 2003

Healthcare Interoperability Forum in ā€˜Abeyanceā€™

The Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF), an industry group of leading system suppliers focused on developing common standards, has gone
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10 July 2003

US SNOMED Licence Raises Questions Over NHS Deal

A $32.4m contract signed by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the US National Library of Medicine will make
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