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19 October 2005

U-turn on whether health info sites beneficial

The authors of a study that concluded information websites for patient with long-term conditions were detrimental to health have retracted
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17 October 2005

Virtual healthcare research institute launched

A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in
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14 October 2005

Granger sets November deadline for BT in London

BT has been warned by NHS IT boss Richard Granger that they must hit a 28 November deadline to switch
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14 October 2005

Ending the ‘rough ride’ for health informaticians

People who choose to work in health informatics have had a ‘fairly rough ride’ with no obvious career pathways and
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4 October 2005

Listening exercise shows support for central database

Support for the idea of a central NHS database and a desire for more ‘joined up’ social and health care
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3 October 2005

Universal CRS sheds bright light on old issues

Many of the questions raised by electronic records are not new, but their universal nature sheds a bright light on
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3 October 2005

Two lines to combat GP cynicism – Jeavons

Connecting for Health’s director of service implementation, Richard Jeavons, has attributed GP cynicism about IT modernisation to the newspapes and
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29 September 2005

CfH approaches 2,000th deployment

Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of
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28 September 2005

Speech recognition helps King’s meet cancer target

Speech recognition technology has helped produce a 50% reduction in diagnostic reporting times according to a report of a recent
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26 September 2005

Cancer case repository launched to aid research

A new cancer case repository that is able to extract information from the wide variety of sources in an electronic
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