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Call for improved sat nav for blind

Professor John Gill, chief scientist at the Royal National Institute of Blind People has called for satellite navigation systems to
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Newcastle chooses Pittsburgh for EHR

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre to deploy electronic health
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Scottish doctors angry over e-health cuts

Doctors at the Scottish BMA conference have expressed concerns over the Scottish government’s decision to cut £5m from the e-health
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Choose and Book bill reaches £100m

The government’s e-booking service Choose and Book has cost almost £100m so far, the Department of Health has revealed. In
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BCS launches new NHS IT qualification

A new qualification, NHS ELITE (NHS eLearning IT Essentials), has been launched by the British Computer Society and Department of
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One in ten EPS pharmacies scanning all barcodes

Only 11% of pharmacies enabled for the Electronic Prescription Service are scanning every barcode prescription with problems including slow download
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French researchers develop symbols for drug info

A new icon system has been developed by researchers in France to enable practitioners to identify drug information using medical
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