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21 April 2005

E-Health Innovation Awards winners announced

Health technology projects that help diabetic patients, speed up results reporting for X-rays and scans and deliver vital information for
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21 April 2005

E-Health Innovation awards honour primary care

Primary care IT developments were well represented among the winners of the first E-Health Innovation Awards 2005. Projects that help
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21 April 2005

Kaiser to end ‘wobbly’ medicine

Doctors working without computerised systems are working in the “operational dark ages”, according to George Halvorson, chief executive officer of
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21 April 2005

Online STD tests offer results and advice

A website has been set up by a sexual health foundation in San Francisco that allows men to order STD
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20 April 2005

‘State of the art’ review of health IT announced

The National Patient Safety Research Programme has issued a call for a systematic review of internationally available research on the
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20 April 2005

Delivery delays mount across the national programme

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that there are delays in implementing the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in
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20 April 2005

Doctors can order drug samples online

Online portal Doctors.net.uk have started a drug sampling service with , ‘iSample’, that will allow doctors to opt in to
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19 April 2005

Legacy integration in NHS still slow, says survey

A survey undertaken by software company WRQ has found that less than half of UK healthcare IT managers whose trusts
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19 April 2005

QoF results publication likely in next two months

Quality and Outcomes Framework results for every practice in England and Scotland are likely to be published on government websites
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18 April 2005

NHS Direct software may expand abroad after buyout

The firm that supplies the decision support software which forms the basis of the NHS Direct, NHS Direct Wales and
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