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4 December 2003

Competition Appeal puts brakes on iSOFT/Torex merger

The immediate future of the proposed iSOFT-Torex merger was thrown into question today when the Competition Appeals Tribunal ruled that
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3 December 2003

Technology can reduce or create medication errors

  Technology has the potential both to reduce and to create new types of medication errors – and should be
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2 December 2003

Farewell ICRS, hello NHS Care Record Service

E-Health Insider can exclusively reveal that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has ditched Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS) as
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2 December 2003

WinPath chosen by Brighton and Sussex

Sysmed Solutions has announced that its WinPath pathology laboratory information management system (LIMS) has been selected by at Brighton and
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1 December 2003

More cash for the national programme?

A further £2 billion is being sought to fund the NHS National Programme for IT into 2006 and 2007, according
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27 November 2003

Internet has blown away library walls

The Internet has blown away the walls of libraries as effectively as Semtex, Dr Muir Gray, director of the National
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26 November 2003

Paying the price for success

As the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) procurements approach their climax the final few weeks of negotiations appear to have
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26 November 2003

Meditech wins first Irish customer

Galway Medical Clinic, owned by Blackrock Medical Partners, has licensed the complete health care information system (HCIS) from Medical Technology
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25 November 2003

Top award for NHSIAā€™s computer training scheme

A NHS Information Authority’s European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) initiative to equip all NHS staff with basic IT skills has
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24 November 2003

National US health information infrastructure called for

 The influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a new report calling on the US Government to create national data
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