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Recoding purchase data generates savings

A healthcare trust in London is claiming it has saved £1m by recoding its procurement systems from freetext into individual
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National patient safety database delivers first results

The National Patient Safety Agency has published its first report on patient safety incidents across the NHS in England and
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Royal Society to investigate ICTs in health

The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has launched an investigation into how the rapidly developing fields of
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Medicare to give away EPR software

Medicare, the largest US Federal payer of medical care, has announced that it is to help speed up the adoption
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Trust with CEO linked to IT supplier rapped

The Audit Commission has criticised "lack of attention to good governance" in a hospital trust that procured IT services from
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Consultation highlights concerns over NCRS ownership

Concerns over who will own the summary record on the spine and how the summary data will be validated are
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Bringing CfH into the mainstream

Richard Jeavons, director of IT service implementation at the DH, tells E-Health Insider about his role in pushing IT reform
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Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’

The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used
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Bradford gets UK’s first iSOFT pharmacy solution

Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has become the first implementation of iSOFT’s i.Pharmacy software in the UK, a move that
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HL7 explained

In his second article for EHI, Tim Benson from training company Abies explains HL7 V3, the national language of NHS
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