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28 February 2008

The bigger picture at HIMSS

Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.
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28 February 2008

Conferencing technology could save NHS £121m

Annual savings of 60,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and around £121m on travel costs could be achieved if 3% of
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28 February 2008

St Helens and Knowsley COIN speeds up comms

Over 7,500 staff working across 160 GP surgeries, health centres and acute hospitals in St Helens and Knowsley, Merseyside, are
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28 February 2008

Insurance companies to pay doctors for smartcards

After a year of negotiations, German health insurance companies have agreed to pay doctors for the smartcard readers and software
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27 February 2008

N3 Sponsored Feature

N3 is essential to the modern NHS. As the largest Virtual Private Network in Europe it is a project of
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27 February 2008

German ID card to allow pseudonyms

The German Home Office has confirmed that a new electronic identity card for German citizens will incorporate the use of
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27 February 2008

Charing Cross hospital installs new e-whiteboard

Emergency staff at London’s Charing Cross Hospital are using a new interactive whiteboard from SMART Technologies, which has centralised all
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27 February 2008

Hi-tech bed sheets to monitor heart rate

Patient’s heart being monitored via bed sheet. Philips Research is to pilot a new bed with built-in sensors and the
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26 February 2008

CSC yet to sign GPSoC contract

CSC has yet to sign its contract with Connecting for Health to take part in the GP Systems of Choice
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26 February 2008

GP2GP exceeding targets

Connecting for Health’s GP2GP record transfer project is meeting its targets ahead of schedule and expects to reach 100,000 record
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