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23 October 2003

Fears of patient abuse of e-mail not realised

Doctors’ fears that an e-mail consultation service would be abused turned out to be unfounded, the International e-Health Association Conference
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23 October 2003

No rational reason to make N3 a closed system

NHS IT director-general Richard Granger says there will be adequate controls on information passing over the new NHS network but
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22 October 2003

Open Source: IT + GP Contract = Heady Cocktail

Roy Lilley, independent health policy analyst and author of “The New GP Contract – How to Make the Most of
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21 October 2003

Patient First Alliance no longer in National Programme

With barely a month to go before the first Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts are awarded Patient First Alliance (PFA)
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20 October 2003

Making NHS technology more trial friendly

Like the rest of the health sector the pharmaceutical industry has been famously (or infamously) conservative about embracing new technology.
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17 October 2003

Leeds trust wins technology award

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has won the BT-sponsored Health Service Journal Award for “Improving Care with e-Technology” with a project
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16 October 2003

NHSmail take-up minimal so far

One year on from award of a £90m contract with Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and six months after its launch
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15 October 2003

Casualty Plus opens with TrakHealth

To contact Casualty Plus, call 08456 777 999. E-Health Insider is a news organisation and is not connected to Casualty
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15 October 2003

IMS MAXIMS awarded contract to upgrade Irish PAS system

The Irish Health Board Executive (HeBE) in Ireland has signed a contract with IMS MAXIMS to upgrade its existing shared
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14 October 2003

Major new lab systems wins for Sysmed and iSOFT

Two major new laboratory systems contracts were announced this week which will bring modernised facilities to Leeds Teaching Hospitals and
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