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Philips buys Tomcat Systems

Dutch IT giant Royal Philips Electronics has announced it will acquire Tomcat Systems Ltd, a Northern Ireland-based supplier of cardiac
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iB Solutions wins contract extension

iB Solutions, an Irish subsidiary of IBA Health, has won a £22m contract extension with NHS Shared Business Services to host
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Imperial integration

The UK's first Academic Health Science Centre is generating a significant systems integration challenge for the merged institution’s IT professionals.
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Scotland to pilot new sexual health system

A new Scottish national sexual health IT system, known as NaSH, will be piloted in the next few weeks in
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Data recording may explain trust’s high death rate

An inadequate system for recording and coding data on patients has been blamed by Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust for
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Committee backs data protection checks

The parliamentary joint committee on human rights has backed proposals to allow the Information Commissioner to check government IT projects
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New clinical lead expresses support for SCR

Personal experience convinced a new national clinical lead (NCL) for Connecting for Health that electronic records were an important future
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ESR set to complete roll-out

The NHS’s Electronic Staff Record is due to complete its national implementation this month, with over 600 NHS organisations across
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Bolton meet integration needs with InterSystems

Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration platform in an effort to connect all its hospital systems
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IC boss says no special treatment for Dr Foster

The chief executive of the Information Centre has made it clear that Dr Foster Intelligence has no privileged access to
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