16 May 2002

No Funding for IT Development Projects

The Department of Health has failed to secure extra funding for a series of development projects that had been thought
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16 May 2002

EDS is Preferred Supplier for NHS National e-Mail

EDS was named by the NHS Information Authority this week as the new preferred supplier for the NHS national e-mail
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16 May 2002

Survey Challenges Compulsory Patient Data Sharing

A new survey by ICM research finds that 95% of patients said they would not allow civil servants access to
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15 May 2002

British Midland Installs Tempus Telemedicine System

BMI British Midland has installed a new telemedicine system on its planes flying long-haul flights to provide improved care to
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9 May 2002

Patient Access to Records via the Net on Trial

Bury Knowle Health Centre, one of the ERDIP pilot sites for patient access to electronic records, is testing out a
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9 May 2002

Steady Growth in “Cyberchondria”

Eighty percent of American adults who have access to the internet have used it to seek health or medical information,
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9 May 2002

“Scope for Improvement” on NHS e-Procurement

Only 14% of NHS trusts have fully integrated computer systems capable of managing electronic requisitioning, ordering, invoice matching and payment,
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7 May 2002

McKesson Agrees Purchase of ALI Technologies

McKesson Corporation has agreed to buy ALI Technologies, a Vancouver-based enterprise medical imaging solutions company in a deal worth around
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7 May 2002

GHX and vamedis* Link in e-Procurement Consolidation

The Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) has struck an agreement with German-based e-procurement solutions provider, vamedis*, to acquire vamedis*’ browser technology
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2 May 2002

Medicdirect and Tiscali Join Up for New Health Channel

Medicdirect, the UK health web site with content provided by NHS consultants, has signed up to provide a new health
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