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18 November 2004

Accenture names Phoenix as primary care supplier

Accenture has announced that it has signed agreements with Microsoft, Liquidlogic and The Phoenix Partnership to provide technology solutions for
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18 November 2004

IT key to patient care, says NeLH director

The founding director of the National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH), Dr Muir Gray, has said that the National Programme
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17 November 2004

Halligan will not take up top Irish health job

Deputy chief medical officer, Professor Aidan Halligan, who until recently held the post of joint senior responsible officer (SRO) for
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17 November 2004

RFID tags on medication introduced in US

US regulators the Food and Drug Administration have released guidance for the attachment of RFID tags to drug packaging in
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17 November 2004

Cerner to buy private physician system supplier

Kansas-based Cerner Corp. has today announced that it has signed an agreement to buy the Medical Division of VitalWorks Inc,
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16 November 2004

Evening classes for electronic records?

Adult education courses to explain what the new electronic patient care record does and how it can be used in
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16 November 2004

New QOF software to hide data, but not for all GPs

NPfIT has developed software that automatically anonymises GP electronic patient records for audit by primary care organisations under the Quality
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16 November 2004

NHS CRS supplier wins top 50 growth award

Ardentia, who are supplying the data reporting software to BT Syntegra for implementation of the NHS Care Records Service, have
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15 November 2004

Choose and Book faces potential “show stoppers”

Implementation of Choose and Book (CaB), the national electronic appointment booking service, is experiencing serious teething problems with only a
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15 November 2004

Patient database to boost research

The University of Birmingham is piloting a new computer network that will allow clinicians to register patients for clinical trials and
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