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Widely-tipped Accenture wins North-east

Consulting, technology services and outsourcing specialists, Accenture, were widely tipped to win the local service provider contract for the North-east, Yorkshire
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London to start implementation immediately

The NHS’s IT boss for London has told E-Health insider that implementation work is set to begin immediately, following today’s
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Reid Announces £2.7 billion of NHS IT contracts

Health Secretary John Reid today announced the award of contracts, which he promised would lead to every NHS patient having
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Monday looks certain to be C-Day

After weeks of frenzied speculation, much of it by E-Health Insider readers in our E-Health Forums, conjecture on contract award
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Competition Appeal puts brakes on iSOFT/Torex merger

The immediate future of the proposed iSOFT-Torex merger was thrown into question today when the Competition Appeals Tribunal ruled that
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Technology can reduce or create medication errors

  Technology has the potential both to reduce and to create new types of medication errors – and should be
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Farewell ICRS, hello NHS Care Record Service

E-Health Insider can exclusively reveal that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has ditched Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS) as
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WinPath chosen by Brighton and Sussex

Sysmed Solutions has announced that its WinPath pathology laboratory information management system (LIMS) has been selected by at Brighton and
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More cash for the national programme?

A further £2 billion is being sought to fund the NHS National Programme for IT into 2006 and 2007, according
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Internet has blown away library walls

The Internet has blown away the walls of libraries as effectively as Semtex, Dr Muir Gray, director of the National
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