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18 May 2006

Courage to build

A European framework for interoperability is cruical to the success of e-health across the continent, industry leaders have argued at
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18 May 2006

PACS underway in half of English trusts

Around half of trusts in England either have a picture archiving and communications system “happening, about to happen or happened”,
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18 May 2006

European ‘Connect-a-thon’ tests interoperability

Over 60 healthcare software companies and organisations from all over the world have gathered together in Spain to test the
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16 May 2006

Trusts can keep McKesson PAS systems to 2010

US healthcare IT giant McKesson has signed a deal with NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering
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15 May 2006

BT’s CEO backs NHS IT boss

The chief executive of UK telecomms giant BT has lent his support to Richard Granger, the head of NHS Connecting
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12 May 2006

Call for tougher penalties for information crime

A case in which an abusive husband was able to track down his ex-partner’s whereabouts through her parents’ medical records
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11 May 2006

NPfIT could ‘transform’ drug reaction reporting

Reporting of adverse drug reactions in England could be transformed by systematic collection through the National Programme for IT, according
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9 May 2006

Patient records may only be shared locally, say CfH

Detailed electronic patient records will not be accessible outside the local groups of organisations that created them, in direct contradiction
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5 May 2006

NAO says out-of-hours management information poor

Management information on out-of-hours services is poor, caused partly by problems with IT systems and compounded by inadequate telephone systems
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4 May 2006

CSC helps cut patient referral times

A new strategic patient administration system  installed at a primary care trust in North Manchester has helped to slash the time taken for new
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