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Care records now running 2.5 years late

Health minister Lord Warner has said that plans to introduce an integrated electronic medical record for every NHS patient in
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Heart of England procures independently on PACS

Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust in Birmingham has gone outside the nationally negotiated NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) contract
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iSoft’s Lorenzo hits new highs in benchmarks

Manchester based health software firm iSoft has announced that its Lorenzo healthcare solution has hit new benchmark highs in handling
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Choice? What choice?

Over a year since the announcement of GP system choice, many practices still only have one package to choose from.
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ComMedica closes diagnostic imaging business

ComMedica Limited, the UK-based developer of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) has announced that it is closing its diagnostic
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Cyber carers

Colin Jervis investigates whether robot medics will ever evolve to the same level as their flesh-and-blood counterparts, in his second
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Staff workflow key to health IT success, says study

Healthcare IT implementations could risk failure if care is not taken of how users react to the tasks they are
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Hammersmith chooses Technidata for blood transfusion

Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a contract with Technidata to replace its two existing blood transfusion systems with TD-BloodBank,
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Doctors critical of NPfIT costs, survey finds

Doctors believe the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) could provide valuable benefits to clinical care in the long term, but
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Cancer network claims time saved by teleconferencing

The Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire (SWSH) Cancer Network has upgraded its videoconferencing systems to allow members to collaborate without
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