3 December 2008

EU internet access reaches 60 per cent

60% of households across the EU had internet access in 2008, according to a survey. Across the 27 countries within
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3 December 2008

Wikipedia can omit key drug information

New research warns that consumers who relay on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for drug information may be putting themselves at
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1 December 2008

Vienna to host IHE’s 2009 Connectathon

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Europe will hold its ninth annual Connectathon event in Vienna, Austria, on 20-24 April next
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28 November 2008

Dr Glyn Hayes made BCS honorary fellow

Dr Glyn Hayes, GP, a pioneer in health informatics, has been made an Honorary Fellow by the British Computer Society
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28 November 2008

NHS Tayside and Lanarkshire guilty of data breaches

Two Scottish health boards have been found in breach of data protection laws for leaving patients’ personal information on paper
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27 November 2008

Royal Free says Cerner creates duplicate x-ray risk

Patients at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust are potentially at risk of having duplicate x-rays ordered and receiving double
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27 November 2008

Fujitsu Siemens launches health tablet PC

Fujitsu Siemens computers has launched the ESPRIMO MA, a mobile tablet PC for the health sector.
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26 November 2008

Barts takes a week to recover from Mytob virus

Barts and the London NHS Trust is still working to recover from the Mytob worm virus a week after it
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25 November 2008

Pre-budget report targets NHS efficiency savings

Billions of pounds of extra efficiency savings are to be required from public sector organisations, including the NHS, the Chancellor of the
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24 November 2008

iSoft announces new products at Medica

iSoft has launched two integrated care systems for the German market, based on the company’s new Lorenzo software.
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