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Legal issues with GP data transfer mooted at HC2005

GPs who move their electronic patient record data to new systems may have to keep the old ones running concurrently
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Practices to get choice of any LSP primary care system

In a major change of direction all GP practices in England are to get a choice between all the accredited
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Northern Ireland unveils plans for electronic records

Northern Ireland has announced plans to develop its own electronic care record in a move which has led to calls
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Hutton departure wounded NPfIT, says researcher

Many difficulties suffered by the National Programme for IT can be traced back to when Professor Peter Hutton resigned as
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A+E staff get feature-packed mobile phones

A&E staff at Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust are trialling PDAs containing a Swiss Army knife range of features including voice
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Welsh hospital trust looks to merge patient records

Pontypridd & Rhondda NHS Trust has installed a system that allows patient details to be stored on a central server,
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Version One updates document imaging with OCR

Version One has announced a new version of its document imaging software used by a number of NHS trusts that
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Limited public access to cardiac surgery data agreed

The Central Cardiac Audit Database is to have a public portal allowing access to selected cardiac surgery mortality data. The
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No single opt-out on medical records database

Patients will be unable to make a single request for their records not to be held on the NHS Care
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Conservatives call for NHS IT review

Andrew Lansley, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, has announced that a future Conservative government would commission an urgent review
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