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Mobile phone microscope developed

American researchers have developed a fluorescence microscope that can be attached to a mobile phone that can take and analyse
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Davis: Google hits back

Google’s global privacy counsel has hit back at former shadow home secretary David Davis for an article criticising the Conservative
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Imperial breaches the DPA

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be required to sign an undertaking not to
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AHIMA opens Brussels Office

The American Health Information Management Association has announced the official opening of a global services office in Brussels. AHIMA says the
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BlackBerry transplant system trialled

Liver surgeons and transplant coordinators at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust have started using BlackBerrys to help to determine
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EPS R2 goes live in Leeds

Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service has gone live at its first site in Leeds, NHS Connecting for Health
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Agfa Healthcare sales continue to fall

Agfa-Gavaert has announced that its healthcare sales have decreased by 5.8% from €313m to €295m for the second quarter of
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Lords question flu response

Members of the House of Lords have told the government they have “significant concerns” about the delay in the launch
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CompuGroup subsidiary wins Turkish deal

CompuGroup’s Turkish subsidiary Promed has won a €1.2m deal from insurance firm Axa to support claims handling and processing. CompuGroup
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Davis: privatising records ‘dangerous’

Former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial
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