Infrastructure

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11 September 2006

Pay-as-you-examine PACS deal for Finland

Kodak has agreed a three year pay-as-you-examine partnership for picture archiving and web-viewing services in the South-west Finland Hospital District
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29 August 2006

Sunderland PCT implements substance misuse EHR

Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust has become the first NHS trust to try the new CareNotes Substance Misuse System, in
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15 August 2006

BMA implements single sign-on system

The British Medical Association have implemented an enterprise-wide single sign-on (ESSO) system to simplify login procedures for staff working in
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10 August 2006

IBM donates code to open source health project

IBM has donated code to the Eclipse.org foundation’s Open Healthcare Framework (OHF), which works on increasing interoperability of healthcare software
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1 August 2006

UK version of PubMed Central launched

A major initiative that aims to promote the free transfer of ideas via an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research
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18 July 2006

Public awareness low on e-health services

A picture of low public awareness of electronic health services emerges from a new survey of users with NHS Direct,
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14 July 2006

Deaf signing shows videoconferencing’s potential

A service that offers deaf patients and their clinicians quick access to a sign language interpreter via a video link shows
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4 July 2006

NHS IT project runs up Ā£28.2m legal bill

Connecting for Health has received a £28.2m bill for legal work, one of the biggest ever bills for legal work
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30 June 2006

Lack of NPfIT involvement concerns nurses

Two leading nurses have expressed deep concern at the lack of involvement of the nursing community in the design of
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27 June 2006

NPfIT scrutinised by Public Accounts Committee

The Public Accounts Committee hearing into the NHS National Programme for IT yesterday heard that the £12.4bn programme is largely
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