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19 May 2008

McAfee wins contract for NHS data encryption

NHS Connecting for Health has selected security software specialist McAfee to provide solutions for endpoint desktop encryption and port control,
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13 May 2008

Largest ever UK telecare trial starts

The start of the UK’s largest ever trial of telecare and telehealth in a £31m programme covering 6000 people has
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12 May 2008

Cegedim Rx plans telehealth move

Pharmacy systems specialists, Cegedim Rx, has partnered with Telehealth Solutions to integrate self-monitoring devices with their pharmacy systems. Telehealth Solutions
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29 April 2008

Call for improved sat nav for blind

Professor John Gill, chief scientist at the Royal National Institute of Blind People has called for satellite navigation systems to
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15 April 2008

Most GP systems will require security upgrades

The majority of GP clinical IT systems will not meet the Department of Health’s new data security requirements for transfer
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7 April 2008

Pharmacists may get access to patient care records

The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved.
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19 March 2008

£8m to be spent on telehealth in Scotland

The Scottish government has announced that an extra £8m is to be spent on telecare over the next two years.
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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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27 February 2008

Hi-tech bed sheets to monitor heart rate

Patient’s heart being monitored via bed sheet. Philips Research is to pilot a new bed with built-in sensors and the
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26 February 2008

North Lincs community nurses get mobile

Community nurses in North Lincolnshire are to get wireless rugged laptops in one of the largest deployments yet of mobile
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