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30 August 2006

BCS ‘has not changed mind’ about CfH review

The British Computer Society has denied changing its tack by backing the growing calls for a technical review of the
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29 August 2006

Road to repair

On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, US correspondent Neil Versel reports from Louisiana on the use of EHRs in rebuilding
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22 August 2006

Nurses ‘losing enthusiasm’ for NHS IT reform

The number of nurses across the UK who believe in the benefits of IT reform in the NHS is falling,
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21 August 2006

NI to link barcodes on prescriptions to EPRs

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland has announced it has signed a £6.8m contract
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16 August 2006

Trusts urged to move faster with e-prescribing

Trusts are being urged to move forward faster with e-prescribing and the use of robotics to automate hospital pharmacies by
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15 August 2006

SHA sets up data warehouse for PBC

A strategic health authority has set up online access to patient data for its 15 primary care trusts and 330
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11 August 2006

Survey says practices not receiving activity data for PBC

Almost 70% of GP practices have received only partial or no activity data from their primary care trust to take
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10 August 2006

IBM donates code to open source health project

IBM has donated code to the Eclipse.org foundation’s Open Healthcare Framework (OHF), which works on increasing interoperability of healthcare software
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9 August 2006

EU project looks at DNA link to patient records

A telemedicine project funded by the European Union has been looking at ways of matching patients in emergency situations with
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8 August 2006

PACS passes halfway stage in London and South

The programme to deploy Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) in London and the South of England has passed the
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