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First Welsh practice live with IHR

The first GP practice and out-of-hours service in Wales has gone live with Informing Healthcare’s new Individual Health Record solution.
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£800m already spent on NPfIT in South

The National Programme for IT in the NHS has spent two thirds of its original allocation, but one strategic health
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ContactPoint ‘suffers security breaches’

The children’s database ContactPoint has suffered at least three security breaches since its launch, according to an investigation by a
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Milton Keynes first on Microsoft Amalga

Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust has become the first UK customer for Microsoft’s healthcare data aggregation platform.
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Logica in Norwegian clinical portal deal

Logica has signed a deal to deliver a clinical desktop system, supplied by Orion Health, to healthcare organisations covered by
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NHS Oldham cuts power and carbon costs

NHS Oldham has announced that it expects to save £41,000 from its annual energy costs thanks to energy efficient IT
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One in ten child prescriptions wrong

More than one in ten prescriptions given to children in hospitals contain errors and almost a fifth of drugs are
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France and Germany issue IE warning

The French government has followed Germany in warning internet users not to use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and to find an
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Call for Toolkit discharge standards

NHS Connecting for Health has invited suppliers to help develop and test standards for electronic discharge summaries in an extension
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NIGB issues guide to changing records

The Department of Health is to drop its advice that patients unhappy with their health record must make a formal
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