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4 March 2008

NHS Direct calls cost £16 each

Calls answered by NHS Direct in the last year were costed at just over £16 each, official figures from the information and
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3 March 2008

Conservatives hold review of NHS IT

The Conservative party has confirmed it is currently undertaking an independent review of the National Programme for IT. Shadow health
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3 March 2008

Berlin health conference will focus on IT

Next week sees hundreds of senior health officials from across Europe congregate in Berlin, Germany, for the 4th Annual World
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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

Google CEO unveils Google Health

The veil came off the world’s worst-kept secret in healthcare IT Thursday, as Google chairman and chief executive Eric Schmidt
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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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25 February 2008

Children’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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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

Health informatics one of the ‘grand challenges’

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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11 February 2008

Six firms shortlisted for £80m NHS Choices contract

Six companies have reportedly been shortlisted to run the Department of Health’s NHS Choices website, following an OJEU tender process,
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