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21 May 2004

NHS Innovation Centre may encourage new technology

A new NHS Innovation Centre may soon be developed to allow health professionals, who have new ideas on how to use
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21 May 2004

ASSIST to seek partnership with British Computer Society

ASSIST, the Association for ICT Professionals in Health and Social Care, has voted to seek partnership with the British Computer
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20 May 2004

Europe sets out plan for ‘European E-health Area’

European Commissioner for Health and Human Protection, David Byrne, has called for the creation of a common ‘European e-health area’
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20 May 2004

Best of European E-Health Announced

The 2004 awards for the best e-health projects in Europe have been announced, with three winners chosen from over 32
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20 May 2004

Half of all NHS agencies to be abolished or merged

Up to 5,000 NHS jobs are set to be cut later today in a purge of NHS bureaucracy, with up
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19 May 2004

Videoconferencing lets clinic supervise babies at home

A paediatric cardiology clinic in Belfast has claimed to be the first in the world to pilot ISDN videoconferencing to enable sick children to stay
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18 May 2004

NTA introduces live vacancy search into national database

The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse has improved their online residential rehabilitation database by including the ability to search
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18 May 2004

New PCT monitoring software unveiled

Performance Investigator, a web-enabled analysis tool that runs over NHSNet, is to replace OSCAR and Organisation HealthCheck as the standard
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17 May 2004

GP systems need to improve safety features, says NPSA

The safety features of computing systems currently in use in about three quarters of UK general practices have clinically important
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13 May 2004

EMIS announces new Alerts Manager

Primary care solutions supplier, EMIS, has announced the launch of a new alerts management system that notifies GPs of actions
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