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12 July 2006

Birmingham Children’s loses sight of appointments

Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust has become the latest trust to experience problems after Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) installed new
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11 July 2006

PCT achieves 87% C+B referrals with flexible system

A primary care trust (PCT) has achieved the highest take up of Choose and Book in the country by allowing
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11 July 2006

Doctors test out RFID system for handovers

Doctors at the Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are testing the use of RFID technology for patient handovers.
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11 July 2006

Web clinic gains Healthcare Commission registration

  An online sexual health clinic that offers postal testing and email consultations is claiming to be the first online
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10 July 2006

Lewisham PCT chooses iPlato for SMS reminders

A primary care trust is hoping to reduce missed GP practice appointments by 25% in a year with the aid
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10 July 2006

iSoft’s financial troubles mount

Troubled UK health IT software firm iSoft was plunged into further financial crisis on Friday after it announced it had
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10 July 2006

North Staffs announces ‘big bang’ implementation

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has started its trust-wide ‘big bang’ implementation of a new iSoft patient administration system,
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7 July 2006

Welsh GP surgery offers video podcasts

A rural general practice in Wales has started offering video podcasts for its patients covering a variety of subjects, starting
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7 July 2006

London Cerner switch announcement imminent

NHS acute trusts in the capital will next week receive letters from BT notifying them that it has terminated its
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6 July 2006

iSoft begins EPR roll-out at Derby

iSoft has announced that the initial roll-out of its iCM electronic patient record (EPR) system at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation
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