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7 November 2005

Lessons for NPfIT from ‘wild ride’ to US failure

A study of the ‘wild ride’ towards a failed implementation of a new electronic medical record system found a ‘transient
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4 November 2005

Online infection control site unveiled by UCLH

An online directory of infectious diseases has been unveiled by University College London Hospital (UCLH) and the Whittington and North Middlesex Hospitals
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3 November 2005

IT has critical role in patient safety, says watchdog

 Public service watchdog, the National Audit Office, has underlined the key role IT should play in improving patient safety not
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3 November 2005

NHS trusts save £4.5m on IT through e-commerce

A group of NHS trusts have predicted that they will savings of nearly 30%  on IT hardware by using an
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3 November 2005

Ealing and Southend-on-Sea start patient txt messaging

Mobile messaging firm iPlato  has announced that practices from two more primary care trusts in England have started using its
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3 November 2005

Essex hospital installs teleradiology system

Oldchurch Hospital part of Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust, Essex, is installing a teleradiology system in its neurology and
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2 November 2005

Making NP fit

Access to centralised records as promised by NPfIT will force a redesign of the way information is handled in the
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2 November 2005

International standards organisation for SNOMED proposed

SNOMED International, an arm of The College of American Pathologists (CAP) and NHS Connecting for Health, the agency in charge
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2 November 2005

GPs cautioned on taking part in PBC

GP representatives are advising GPs not to take part in practice based commissioning if they feel that funding for the
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2 November 2005

Moorfields Eye Hospital goes for virtual storage

 Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have installed a virtual storage server that allows them to add extra hardware and storage
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