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NHS Choices introduces BMI calculator

NHS Choices has launched a BMI calculator, which it describes as a new diabetes symptom checker.
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ISPs could do better on data quality

Independent sector providers (ISPs) of NHS care have improved data submissions needed to track quality of care, but there are
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iSoft install HIS for Portugal’s ESSAUDE group

iSoft Spain has installed its x-HIS hospital information system into four health centres and one hospital belonging to Portugal’s Espirito
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NHSmail users have mailbox shrunk

NHS staff who use the health service’s email service NHSmail have been informed that after a recent move to Microsoft
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OLM and Social Software partner on social care

Social care system specialists OLM Group and Social Software have partnered to develop a new integrated solution covering children’s social
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Microsoft and Mayo Clinic partner on information

Microsoft Corp.’s Health Solutions Group and Mayo Clinic Health Solutions are to partner to jointly develop tools that will empower
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Life in Europe to become ambient assisted

Philipp Grätzel reports from Berlin on developments in ambient assisted living, a fast-evolving field combining the IT, medicine, social care
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PAS upgrade problems reported in North West

Problems with delays to patient administration system software upgrades and quality of IT services provided by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
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Home test websites giving misleading information

Websites selling home diagnostic tests are providing misleading and confusing information which could have serious health consequences, according to a
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Conservative MP opts-out of SCR

A Conservative MP has opted out of the Summary Care Record and is encouraging his constituents to do the same.
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