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2 February 2006

Staff workflow key to health IT success, says study

Healthcare IT implementations could risk failure if care is not taken of how users react to the tasks they are
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1 February 2006

Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’

A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS
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31 January 2006

PCT agrees to fund infrastructure upgrade

A primary care trust has agreed to fund replacement servers for practices in its area just days before an arbitration
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31 January 2006

Choose and Book target now March 2007

The target date for the implementation of Choose and Book has been moved back again, this time to March 2007.
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31 January 2006

‘Plymouth’ offered as an interim solution

Connecting for Health has shelved plans to provide NHS acute trusts across three regions in England with an integrated, strategic
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31 January 2006

White paper outlines IT role in community services

Patients will be able to complete an online self-assessment of their health and send it electronically to their GP to
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31 January 2006

GPs highlight “clunky” functionality of C+B

The Choose and Book system is "clunky and cumbersome" and slower than the paper-based referral mechanism it is intended to
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31 January 2006

CfH announces awards for health IT innovation

 Entries have opened for the 2006 Health Informatics Accolade Scheme, which aim to reward the innovative use of technology in
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30 January 2006

iSoft warns of ‘significant’ NPfIT delays

British healthcare software developer iSOFT has warned that delays in delivering software to the UK National Health Service would slash
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30 January 2006

PDA adapted to control intravenous pain-relief

  A US company has linked up an intravenous medication pump to a handheld computer that allows patients to control
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