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22 October 2004

Counter fraud staff to gain right to access NHS records

Health Minister, Lord Warner today unveiled new powers that will provide NHS counter fraud staff with the power to demand
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21 October 2004

A few billion between friends?

After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check
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17 October 2004

Survey finds IT consultation inadequate or non-existent

A new survey of doctors’ views of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) shows 92% of medics questioned felt that
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15 October 2004

Life outside NPfIT: Wales

In the first part of a series, E-Health Insider looks at the developments in healthcare IT in Wales, under the
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11 October 2004

Patient experience website breaks mental health taboo

Dipex, a charity that runs a number of support websites that contains personal testimonies from people who have suffered from
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5 October 2004

Xansa secures NHS finance and accounting deal

Xansa, the IT services company, has been recommended as the preferred partner for a joint venture to provide finance and
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28 September 2004

Urgent need for joined-up IT to improve US healthcare

An influential new report identifies fragmentation as a key cause of problems in the American healthcare system and says IT
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22 September 2004

MedInfo 2004: a global view of health connectivity

Health IT leaders from England, Australia, Canada and the US met at the recent MedInfo 2004 conference to compare notes
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10 September 2004

Health connectivity: the global holy grail

SAN FRANCISCO— The National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) may be the envy of many a country for its £6.2
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9 September 2004

Carrots, sticks and the NPfIT

E-Health Insider talks to the National Programme for IT's chief operations officer, Gordon Hextall about progress on Choose and Book
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