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RFID tags on medication introduced in US

US regulators the Food and Drug Administration have released guidance for the attachment of RFID tags to drug packaging in
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Cerner to buy private physician system supplier

Kansas-based Cerner Corp. has today announced that it has signed an agreement to buy the Medical Division of VitalWorks Inc,
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Evening classes for electronic records?

Adult education courses to explain what the new electronic patient care record does and how it can be used in
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New QOF software to hide data, but not for all GPs

NPfIT has developed software that automatically anonymises GP electronic patient records for audit by primary care organisations under the Quality
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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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Choose and Book faces potential “show stoppers”

Implementation of Choose and Book (CaB), the national electronic appointment booking service, is experiencing serious teething problems with only a
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Patient database to boost research

The University of Birmingham is piloting a new computer network that will allow clinicians to register patients for clinical trials and
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Cost is main problem in implementing US EHR

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has warned that funding and encouragement of early adoption are a few
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BMS UK takes over healthcare biometrics firm

Healthcare IT vendor Business Management Solutions UK has taken over ISL, from which it purchased biometric authentication software and hardware for
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InPS acquires retail pharmacy IT solution

Healthcare IT systems specialist, In Practice Systems (InPS), has announced the acquisition of the UK arm of NDCHealth whose Pharmacy
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