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2 March 2004

Hunt on for public sector IT tsar

The hunt is on for a person to take on to find the candidate to fill the “most influential role
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26 February 2004

Dawn of globalisation in health IT, Granger tells HIMSS

ORLANDO, Florida – The NHS National Programme for Information Technology is drawing interest on both sides of the Atlantic, a
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17 February 2004

US states push for e-health networks

Political leaders in Florida and Kentucky have announced similar plans to create state-wide e-health networks, to enable family physicians, hospitals,
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16 February 2004

Gershon advocates better IT use to free up skilled staff

A leaked report advocating radical measures to improve government efficiency points to better use of IT and skill mix as
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31 December 2003

E-honours in the New Year list

Leading figures in e-government and the Internet are recognised in today’s New Year Honours.   At the top of the
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30 December 2003

Consumers need skills to use Net health help

Consumers need to develop search and appraisal skills to get the best out of health information on the Internet, according
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29 December 2003

Breast cancer and nurse prescribing websites sold

Cambridge University Press has bought two healthcare websites – Breast Cancer Online and Nurse Prescriber as part of an acquisition of
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16 December 2003

TransScript ETP project to close

TransScript ETP, the only UK company dedicated to the development of the Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions (ETP), is to close
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11 December 2003

Welsh NHS IT strategy launched, again

In the week that the NHS in England awarded a tranche of major IT contracts, worth £2.7 billion, Welsh Assembly
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24 November 2003

National US health information infrastructure called for

 The influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a new report calling on the US Government to create national data
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