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20 February 2007

Mobile phones: the new tool to combat AIDS in Africa

Mobile phones will be used to help fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, it was announced at the 3GSM World
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19 February 2007

Call to use Spine to find drug trial patients

The BioIndustry Association has expressed an interest in tapping into the NHS’s Spine database and using patient information to identify
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16 February 2007

DH embraces wireless safety technologies

A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by
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15 February 2007

BMA chair says smart card policy ‘preposterous’

Connecting for Health’s policy of requiring doctors to repeatedly log-in with a smart card every time they use a computer
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15 February 2007

Initiate first to achieve new HL7 compliance level

Initiate Systems, a specialist in master data management solutions has announced it has become the only vendor to have achieved
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12 February 2007

West Middlesex deploys cancer pathway CIS

 In a bid to get better cancer datasets, West Middlesex University Hospital has begun implementation of a new clinical information
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9 February 2007

Health Select Committee outlines NPfIT inquiry

The House of Commons Health Committee has announced details of what it intends to look into as part of its
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9 February 2007

Patients can carry records on secure smartcard

Patients in London can now have their medical histories handy wherever they are, by uploading them onto a new USB
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8 February 2007

BT hits 18,000 N3 connections ahead of schedule

BT has announced that it has successfully reached the 18,000 N3 broadband connections across the NHS, hitting its milestone two months ahead of
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7 February 2007

Software helps Bucks cope with rising support calls

Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented a new support call service to meet increased demand following the deployment of its
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