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4 December 2006

DH rejects patient opt-out requests

The Department of Health has rejected patients’ requests to stop their information being uploaded to the NHS data spine. On
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4 December 2006

Fresh guidance issued on PBC data requirements

Fresh guidance on practice-based commissioning sets out the minimum data requirements that primary care trusts (PCTs) are expected to provide
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4 December 2006

Information Centre to centralise social care records

The Information Centre is working towards producing a new information system for adult social care records, called the Adult Social
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4 December 2006

Kodak to implement PACS in Tuscany

Kodak has agreed a five year deal worth €20m to install its Carestream software in the south-east region of Tuscany,
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1 December 2006

Anger at CMO’s request to forward opt-out coupons

England’s chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has written to all GPs asking them to forward to the Department of
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1 December 2006

E-Health Insider wins technology journalism award

E-Health Insider’s editor and co-founder, Jon Hoeksma, was named Technology Journalist of Year in the 2006 techMark Awards last night.
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1 December 2006

PCTs sign up for prescription clinical support software

Prescription software firm ScriptSwitch have been awarded contracts to provide their ‘real-time’ support software to ten Primary Care trusts. ScriptSwitch
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1 December 2006

Quicksilva releases spine compliance software

Quicksilva Software Solutions has released an application that mimics the messages generated by Connecting for Health’s data spine so that
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30 November 2006

MP “looking into” how NAO report was drafted

Commons Public Accounts Committee member and outspoken scrutiniser of the National Programme for IT, Richard Bacon MP, says he is
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30 November 2006

The next wave

Ben Toth explains how the user's relationship with the internet is changing, in the first of two articles on healthcare
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