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17 March 2005

Northumbria switches to speech recognition

A trust-wide implementation of advanced digital dictation and speech recognition software is planned for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. The aim
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17 March 2005

Brought to book

GP Mark Davies, clinical lead for the National Programme for IT's Choose and Book programme, argues the case for Choose
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17 March 2005

NPfIT clinical leads to attend HC2005

The British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum (BCSHIF) have announced two new sessions at next week’s Healthcare Computing 2005 (HC2005)
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17 March 2005

Call to make drug sales info available online

If pharmaceutical sales representatives provided unbiased information about the drugs they are selling online, known as e-detailing, doctors would spend
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16 March 2005

Cabinet Office denies Watmore to take helm at NPfIT

The Cabinet Office and National Programme for IT have moved swiftly today to deny suggestions that Ian Watmore, the Government’s
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16 March 2005

Welsh hospital trust looks to merge patient records

Pontypridd & Rhondda NHS Trust has installed a system that allows patient details to be stored on a central server,
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15 March 2005

Pathology links system said to be unsafe

The pathology links system is delivering inappropriately coded results in England which make it clinically unsafe because the codes used
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15 March 2005

PA calls for electronic tracking of medical devices

The Patients Association has called for the NHS to introduce modern electronic ‘data capture’ systems to enable individual medical devices
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15 March 2005

Kent uses telehealth for chronic disease support

Kent County Council has launched a series of telehealth and telecare initiatives, in what it claims makes it one of
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15 March 2005

Cardiff begins roll-out of EHRs for community nurses

Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust has announced that it is rolling out an integrated electronic health record for community nursing
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