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28 December 2006

Oasis helps cut surgery waits in Surrey

The Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford says its 12 operating theatre suites are now running at over 90 per
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22 December 2006

iPod access to health records launched in US

New software called HealthFrame 2.1 has been launched in the US allowing patients to access their personal health records using an
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22 December 2006

Practice data controller jailed for record tampering

A data administrator at a North London medical centre has been jailed for tampering with records using the practice’s computer system
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21 December 2006

NICE announces implementation guidance databases

Two new online databases have been launched by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to help support
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19 December 2006

Coventry and Warwicks switches to automated reporting

University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust has implemented DataWatch Europe’s Monarch Data Pump – an automated reporting
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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18 December 2006

Ministerial review to back summary care records

The government is today expected to announce that it will press ahead with plans to begin trials of a national
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15 December 2006

BCS calls for complete overhaul of NHS IT project

A new report from the British Computer Society has called for a fundamental rethink of the NHS IT programme, including
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15 December 2006

Survey shows US appetite for personal electronic records

A US survey has revealed strong support for the concept of personal electronic health records, with those polled seeing them
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14 December 2006

Heart of England invests in digital retinopathy

Information management and storage specialists, EMC Corporation, have implemented two EMC Centera content storage systems at the Heart of England
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