Infrastructure

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7 February 2005

The loneliness of being first

The IT industry has a phrase for being at the front of the queue for any complex new technology: being
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2 February 2005

Electronic mental health record system goes live in Wirral

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust has just implemented an electronic patient record system from local company Strand Technology. The
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31 January 2005

New Darlington walk-in centre uses EHR

A new nurse-led walk-in centre to treat minor ailments in the North-East of England is to be based around sharable
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27 January 2005

First NPfIT deployment plans released

The £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has published a summary of its deployment plans for the first time,
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26 January 2005

Medical equipment firm set to acquire IMPAC

Elekta AB, a Swedish-based medical technology firm specialising in cancer treatment, has acquired healthcare IT software house IMPAC Medical Systems, who
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22 December 2004

ID cards may become healthcare ‘entitlement’ cards

The National Programme for IT has begun initial conversations with the Home Office to examine how the IT infrastructure being
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22 December 2004

Lessons from America

E-Health Insider talks to David Brailer, national co-ordinator for health IT in the US, about how the US and English
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16 December 2004

Securing NHS Care Records

Duncan McNeil, chief technology officer for the National Programme for IT, explains how new NHS Smartcards will be used to
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26 November 2004

Internet telephones installed in hospital trusts

Two hospital trusts in London and Birmingham have had Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone systems installed across their sites
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16 November 2004

NHS CRS supplier wins top 50 growth award

Ardentia, who are supplying the data reporting software to BT Syntegra for implementation of the NHS Care Records Service, have
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