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4 March 2008

Patient information: how ICTs can help

Fiona Barr looks at the role information technology can play in providing greater information for patients.
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29 February 2008

DH seeks tougher sanctions for security breaches

The government is seeking an increase in penalties for NHS staff that breach the Data Protection Act. Health minister, Ben
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28 February 2008

The bigger picture at HIMSS

Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.
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28 February 2008

St Helens and Knowsley COIN speeds up comms

Over 7,500 staff working across 160 GP surgeries, health centres and acute hospitals in St Helens and Knowsley, Merseyside, are
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25 February 2008

Microsoft launches health IT product suite

Microsoft provided further details of its latest product launches and rebranded comprehensive healthcare software suite at the giant Healthcare Information Management
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25 February 2008

Childrenā€™s database work resumes after review

Ministers are to press ahead with plans to develop the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, despite an independent security review identifying
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22 February 2008

Google Health unveils electronic record pilot

Google is piloting a system which lets patients transfer their existing medical information to its new online Personal Health Record.
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20 February 2008

Six years since Blair seminar began NPfIT

Six years ago this week Tony Blair chaired a No 10 Seminar on NHS IT, that paved the way to
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19 February 2008

Data loss prompts Dudley to spend on security

The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust will spend £135,000 on new computer security software, following the theft of a
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19 February 2008

Health informatics one of the ā€˜grand challengesā€™

Advancing health informatics has been listed as one of the 21st century’s greatest challenges by a panel of leading engineers
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