17 April 2002

New Approach on Electronic Records Needed

Despite the investment of tens of billions of Euros in healthcare IT the industry worldwide has failed to deliver on
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17 April 2002

NHS Needs To Double IT Spending – Wanless

A doubling of spending on information and communication technology will be needed to fund ambitious targets set out in the
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15 April 2002

Strong Patient Demand for Online Access to Doctors

Ninety percent of adults who are online want some form of electronic communication with their doctors, according to US market
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11 April 2002

Instant Medical History Comes to Europe

One of the biggest obstacles to electronic records is getting doctors to enter patient details onto systems electronically. A US
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11 April 2002

Royal Wolverhampton Goes for Optimum EPR

The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals (RWH) NHS Trust has contracted with Optimum HealthWare, a division of VisionWare Plc, to incrementally develop
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10 April 2002

Patient ID Chip Set for Global Launch

A tiny ID microchip that can be implanted in the human body, and then used to identify patients and enable
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10 April 2002

Lord Hunt – “We Will Meet EPR targets”

Lord Hunt, the health minister with responsibility for IT, has underlined his determination that the NHS will achieve its targets
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9 April 2002

GP Pathology Messaging Contracts Under Negotiation

A central procurement process has started to ensure that GPs have the right software to handle online pathology reports and
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4 April 2002

Torex Wins Contracts at Two Shared Services Sites

Torex Health has been awarded five year contracts to implement Oracle financial services software at two shared services centres due
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4 April 2002

PCTs Told to Freeze IT Procurement Plans

Primary Care Trusts have been told to put their plans for integrated primary and community electronic patient records on hold
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