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30 October 2003

Wirral Health Informatics Service extends EHR capabilities

  The Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS) has extended the capability of its pilot electronic health record (EHR) system by
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30 October 2003

Proposed NHS agency would oversee ICT

A King’s Fund report has called for the formation of a new NHS body part of whose role would be to
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29 October 2003

iSOFT bags one of the last local EPR deals

Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £14.9m deal with iSOFT for an electronic patient record (EPR) and
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29 October 2003

Cerner CEO: contracts are ‘onerous but not outrageous’

With the award of the first Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts due within a month, one of the firms that
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27 October 2003

Primary care IT Manhattan style

Andrew Harrison, whose career change took him from computer programming to hospital medicine, continues his occasional series with some notes
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23 October 2003

Fears of patient abuse of e-mail not realised

Doctors’ fears that an e-mail consultation service would be abused turned out to be unfounded, the International e-Health Association Conference
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23 October 2003

No rational reason to make N3 a closed system

NHS IT director-general Richard Granger says there will be adequate controls on information passing over the new NHS network but
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22 October 2003

Open Source: IT + GP Contract = Heady Cocktail

Roy Lilley, independent health policy analyst and author of “The New GP Contract – How to Make the Most of
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21 October 2003

Patient First Alliance no longer in National Programme

With barely a month to go before the first Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts are awarded Patient First Alliance (PFA)
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20 October 2003

Making NHS technology more trial friendly

Like the rest of the health sector the pharmaceutical industry has been famously (or infamously) conservative about embracing new technology.
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