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NPfIT is a ‘high quality enabler’ says NHS chief

NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, has described the National Programme for Information Technology as “not fundamentally an IT programme, but
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Isle of Man chooses System C for major contract

System C has won a £7.5m contract to provide an integrated island-wide healthcare IT service in the Isle of Man.
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FDBE signs up with Map of Medicine and Soarian

Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe has secured contracts to add its systems to the Map of Medicine and
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Funding for data accreditation must be a priority

Strategic health authorities have been instructed to make support for GP practice data accreditation a priority, the Healthcare Computing conference
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Consider ethical issues of care record, MDU advises

GPs need to consider going beyond implied consent before allowing patient information to be uploaded to the spine, according to
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Cerner deal signed to aid 18 week wait target

Healthcare information technology specialist, Cerner, will be helping trusts in North-west and South-west England to meet the government target for
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Central Surrey use telemedicine to tackle COPD

Central Surrey Health NHS Trust have shown that using telemedicine as support for treating patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Dr Glyn Hayes receives lifetime achievement award

GP, Dr Glyn Hayes has been awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Health Informatics Forum of the British Computer
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Call to use more everyday technology in health

Healthcare should embrace everyday technologies and challenge clinical boundaries by using them, a senior academic told the Healthcare Computing conference
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Minister to look at C+B issue with ‘sensitive’ patients

Patients who withhold their names and addresses to protect their personal safety are being ‘disenfranchised’ from the NHS when their
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