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26 August 2009

Personal view: Tim Benson

Standards guru Tim Benson argues that understanding health interoperability, HL7 and SNOMED CT will become increasingly important in this taster
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26 August 2009

Digital maps show flu pick-up gaps

NHS emergency planners in Bristol and Avon are using advanced digital mapping to develop their swine flu pandemic response strategy.
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21 August 2009

Thousands of Lab samples ‘mislabelled’

Tens of thousands of clinical samples are being wrongly labelled when they arrived at NHS pathology laboratories, an investigation has
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21 August 2009

Robot report calls for greater debate

The Royal Academy of Engineering has published a report on the social, legal and ethical issues of using robots in
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20 August 2009

Personal view: Mary Hawking

Mary Hawking, a GP and critical friend of NHS IT, asks: are your records fit for sharing?
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20 August 2009

Xerox to manage Worcestershire records

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has started a £12.8m record management project to transfer more than 1.2m medical records online
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19 August 2009

Surrey and Sussex to stick with Cerner

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has dropped plans to abandon Cerner for an iSoft alternative. Instead, the trust will
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17 August 2009

NPSA: unsure if wristband target met

The National Patient Safety Agency has said a technical problem means it is unable to establish whether its target to make sure that all
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13 August 2009

In defence of the Spine

Ewan Davis surprises himself by setting out the case in defence of the NHS Spine. He argues that if we
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12 August 2009

Time to change the record?

E-Health Insider's Sarah Bruce gauges reaction to the Conservatives' response to the independent review of NHS IT.
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