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I wrote it ten times or more

Journalist Michael Cross reflects on 30 years of writing about NHS IT.
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Lancashire begins e-document project

NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale in Lancashire has begun a project to digitise all its inactive health care records. The primary care trust is
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IMS sponsored case study

IMS Health’s secure private network, Securnet, is being used by primary care trusts to support new services in the community,
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Tweeting medics breach confidentiality

Medics posting gossipy messages and stories about patients they encounter on networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are routinely breaching
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Barts 18 week backlog in thousands

A new care record system has contributed to thousands of patients from Barts and the London NHS Trust potentially breaching
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Electronic records used to spot abuse

Electronic patient records can be used to predict a patient’s risk of receiving a future diagnosis of domestic abuse, according
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