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5 December 2001

PKI Token System Adopted for Australian Health System

The Australian Health Insurance Commission has awarded a contract to Rainbow eSecurity, a provider of transaction security solutions, to provide Public
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4 December 2001

Wanless on Information Technology

The UK health service has a poor record on the use of information and communication technology and spending in this
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3 December 2001

Care Pathways Database Added to NELH

A list of over 2,000 care pathways, in use or under development in over 200 NHS organisations, has been added
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30 November 2001

HealthNexis Merges with Global Health Exchange

Online health e-business firms Global Healthcare Exchange(GHX) and HealthNexis have announced plans to combine their operations into a single, comprehensive
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29 November 2001

DH Wants Board-Level Information Leads in New SHAs

The Department of Health has signalled that it wants to see information management and technology represented at the highest levels
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28 November 2001

MD Consult Donates Online Medical Library to Latvia

Physicians, medical students and other health professionals in Latvia now have access to a comprehensive collection of medical resources available
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26 November 2001

iSOFT promoted to FTSE Index

The UK, Manchester-based healthcare information systems firm iSOFT has been promoted to the City of London’s premier division after being
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22 November 2001

GSK launch Respiratory Channel with Doctors.net.uk

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to support the launch of an online respiratory channel for chest medicine specialists and GPs on Doctors.net.uk,
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21 November 2001

NDAs Could Reinforce Health Records Security

A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) designed to spell out clearly the duty to maintain the confidentiality of patient records could help
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21 November 2001

IT Standardisation Difficult, but Vital

Achieving the “robust, flexible and standardised” NHS information system envisaged by health secretary, Alan Milburn, will be difficult while the
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