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Storm over Fujitsu executive’s ‘honest’ NPfIT remarks

A senior executive from local service provider to the Southern cluster, Fujitsu, has said that the intense pressure suppliers are
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Patients can carry records on secure smartcard

Patients in London can now have their medical histories handy wherever they are, by uploading them onto a new USB
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BT hits 18,000 N3 connections ahead of schedule

BT has announced that it has successfully reached the 18,000 N3 broadband connections across the NHS, hitting its milestone two months ahead of
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DTI says it will back UK telehealth firms

Industry and regions minister, Margaret Hodge has said that the Department of Trade and Industry wants to promote new telehealth
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Granger promises summary care record pilots by Easter

Connecting for Health’s chief executive, Richard Granger, has revealed that the first pilots of the national summary care record project
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NPfIT Service Desk now running in all clusters

  Fujitsu have implemented the new NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) service desk in all of the National Programme for
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Out of hours record systems review ordered by DH

The Department of Health (DH) has instructed all primary care trusts (PCTs) to review the use of paper-based systems by
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Computers – the greatest medical breakthrough?

Computers have been shortlisted in a British Medical Journal poll to determine the greatest medical breakthrough since 1840. They are one
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Practice data controller jailed for record tampering

A data administrator at a North London medical centre has been jailed for tampering with records using the practice’s computer system
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NHS Direct launches on Freeview for Christmas

NHS Direct is bracing itself for its busiest Christmas period since its launch in 1999, having launched a new channel
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