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20 November 2003

IBA to ask for review of OFT decision on iSoft Torex deal

Australian-based healthcare information systems supplier IBA announced this week that it intends to apply to the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal for a review
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19 November 2003

Analysts speculate on LSP contract awards

A US market analyst report obtained by E-Health Insider predicts that clinical applications vendor Cerner will win two of the Local
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18 November 2003

US healthcare IT looks kinda familiar

In a second article on healthcare IT systems in America, Andrew Harrison reports from the 650-bed Lenox Hill Hospital in
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17 November 2003

Fraudster sentenced for selling old-for-new IT to NHS

The former managing director of a Yorkshire computer company has been sentenced to 180 hours community service for selling used
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14 November 2003

Gloucestershire NHS staff get mobile access to EPR

One of the key issues facing local health communities is how to cost-effectively provide all staff with easy access to
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12 November 2003

ID cards on the way for healthcare entitlement

The government published plans published this week making clear that it wants to introduce identity cards which will be used
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11 November 2003

Gershon says NHS national programme is inherently ‘risky’

Peter Gershon, chief executive of the Treasury’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has described the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)
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10 November 2003

CHI praises NHS Direct

The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) has given a positive assessment of the 24 hour health information and advice line,
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7 November 2003

OFT approves iSOFT-Torex merger

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today, 7 November, approved the merger between the two leading UK health software application and
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7 November 2003

Liverpool hospitals praised for “get well soon” e-mails

A scheme which enables friends and relatives to send e-mail greetings to in-patients in the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals
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