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21 November 2007

Medica 2007: smartcard lows and EPR highs

Although there was good news for medical smartcard projects at the trade fair Medica 2007 in Düsseldorf, doctors critical of
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21 November 2007

Single info governance board plans unveiled

Full details of the cost and role of the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care were
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21 November 2007

EPRs support new clinic for spina bifida care

The Scottish Spina Bifida Association (SSBA) has completed a pilot study of a ‘one stop’ health check clinic, using AxSys’ Excellicare
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20 November 2007

Philips Sponsored Feature

Philips is using its leading global position in healthcare speech recognition to drive technology advancements towards reducing medical errors and
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20 November 2007

Industry agrees standardised interface for EPRs

After one year of negotiations – faster than expected – more than 30 health IT companies have agreed on a
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20 November 2007

Losing patient data may become a crime

The court should be able to prosecute doctors who have laptops containing unencrypted patient information stolen from their cars, according
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20 November 2007

NHS Choices in offensive passwords blunder

More than 200 GP practices were sent offensive passwords for the Department of Health’s flagship website NHS Choices last week,
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20 November 2007

Survey shows falling GP support for NPfIT

Support and enthusiasm for the National Programme for IT among GPs has fallen by more than 50% since the programme
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20 November 2007

Integration to improve newborn testing

One of the 2 million babies to be screened since the launch of NHSP The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
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20 November 2007

Survey shows waning support for NPfIT

Waning enthusiasm from doctors for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is recorded in a Medix survey of medical opinion
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