First European deal for HealthVault
Microsoft and Siemens have signed an agreement to licence Microsoft’s personal health record platform, HealthVault, in Germany.
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Milton Keynes first on Microsoft Amalga
Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust has become the first UK customer for Microsoft’s healthcare data aggregation platform.
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Cameron: Don’t believe Google scare
David Cameron has said people should not believe “scare stories” about patients’ medical records being handed over to companies such as Google and Microsoft, if the Conservatives are elected.
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Tories promise records for all
Patient-held records are one of the Conservative Party’s priorities for health, according to plans published today. The party said it would carry out a full consultation on how to move to patient-held records with a view to introducing them throughout the NHS. In a speech at the Royal College of Pathologists, party leader David Cameron said […]
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Survey gives boost to HealthSpace
E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk survey shows strong backing for HealthSpace and none at all for commercial alternatives.
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EHI and doctors.net take pulse of NHS IT
NHS IT and alternatives to some or all of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have broken into the non-specialist press in recent weeks. First, papers speculated that the Conservative Party might be planning to tear up the National Programme for IT in the NHS and to let people use personal health record platforms […]
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Primary care inspires review
EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr dissects the NHS IT review and identifies the wellspring of ideas that shaped it.
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Conservatives pledge to ‘halt’ LSP deals
The Conservative party has pledged to scrap the NHS Spine and halt and re-negotiate the two main contracts with BT and Computer Sciences Corporation in order to revamp NHS IT.
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Conservatives to ‘dismantle’ NPfIT
The Conservatives have promised to “dismantle Labour’s central NHS IT infrastructure” and instead move to a choice of local accredited patient record and clinical systems.
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Pharmacists warn on personal records
Pharmacists’ representatives have claimed that use of private health record services such as Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault could risk fragmentation of electronic patient records. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain said “the profileration of these systems and indiscriminate use” could lead to information on drug allergies, possible interactions, duplications or dose adjustments not […]
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