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31 January 2006

CfH announces awards for health IT innovation

 Entries have opened for the 2006 Health Informatics Accolade Scheme, which aim to reward the innovative use of technology in
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30 January 2006

PDA adapted to control intravenous pain-relief

  A US company has linked up an intravenous medication pump to a handheld computer that allows patients to control
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25 January 2006

Unravelling cable

Getting your structured cabling in order is important to installing new IT systems on any site, argues Rosemary McGlashon from
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25 January 2006

Electronic health card trial to begin in Germany

Germany is to start trialling an electronic health card at the end of April that will contains basic patient data
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23 January 2006

More focus on research needed in NPfIT, says report

Leading academic medical researchers say that the Care Record Guarantee currently makes commitments that, if strictly interpreted would prevent a
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19 January 2006

NHS CfH says spine now fixed

NHS Connecting for Health, the DH agency responsible for delivery of the NHS National Programme for IT, has issued a
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16 January 2006

Warning on patient data from medicines reviews

Pharmacists are being warned not to e-mail medicines use reviews to GPs until concerns over confidentiality have been addressed. The
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11 January 2006

Good outlook for IP VPNs in European healthcare

Industry analysts Frost & Sullivan have predicted positive, if qualified, growth of Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IP VPNs)  in healthcare
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9 January 2006

Patient data errors created by iSoft’s iPM system

A flaw has been identified in the iSoft iPM patient administration system being provided as the standard solution to NHS
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6 January 2006

GE Healthcare completes acquisition of IDX

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, has completed its acquisition of health IT specialist IDX Systems Corporation. The
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