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22 September 2006

IC deal with Dr Foster under NAO scrutiny

The controversial deal to form a joint venture between the Health and Social Care Information Centre and a private company
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22 September 2006

EMIS to pilot GP records access via BlackBerry

GP computer supplier EMIS is to pilot GP access to patient records via a BlackBerry mobile device from next month.
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22 September 2006

St George’s switches to ITIL framework

St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has rolled out a new Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework, based on Connecting for
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21 September 2006

IT workers on strike in NHS Logistics dispute

The NHS Logistics strike today is set to include at least 500 helpdesk staff who are crucial to getting orders
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20 September 2006

NPfIT systems failing repeatedly

More than 110 major incident failures have been reported by hospitals and GPs over the past four months relating to
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20 September 2006

UK telehealth firm gains EU recognition

The Health-eLife project, which uses doc@HOME technology from UK-based telehealth services firm Docobo, has been awarded ‘project of the month’ status
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20 September 2006

Tolven release open source systems for testing

American software developers, the Tolven Institute, have launched a new website to release new open source software to its members.
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20 September 2006

SMS alerts for prescriptions launched

Irish pharmaceutical software company, Systems Solutions Limited, has incorporated SMS text messages, e-mails and direct mail functionality into its QicScript
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19 September 2006

500 EMIS practices to get electronic record transfers

NHS Connecting for Health is to roll out GP2GP record transfer to another 500 practices by the end of March
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19 September 2006

No mistake

Misspelt electronic records can have serious effects. Daloni Carlisle looks at the results of a three-year initiative to test the
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