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13 June 2002

IT Strategy – You Have Your Say

E-Health Insider’s request for fantasy IT strategies for the NHS struck a chord with many of you who sent in
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13 June 2002

ComMedica Unveils Web-Based Patient Record

ComMedica, a spinout company from London University’s Imperial College of Science and Technology, this week formally unveiled its Patient Record
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11 June 2002

Australia Funds Research into Open Source EHR

The Australian Government has taken another step towards its plan to introduce a ‘lifetime’ electronic health record system following the
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11 June 2002

Fife Acute Hospitals Introduce New Network

Fife Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has begun introducing a new Citrix-based IT network across its four main sites. The network,
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10 June 2002

Virtual Consultations Could Save Unnecessary Tests

A large scale telemedicine trial published in The Lancet demonstrates that virtual outpatient appointments conducted using videoconference technology can reduce
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6 June 2002

Plymouth Hospitals Go Live with E-Procurement

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has begun to trade electronically with its suppliers using EROS version 4.4 – the first e-purchasing
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5 June 2002

Scotland Invests in Joined up Health and Social Care

The Scottish Executive announced last week that it will invest in developing data sharing and common data standards to help
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5 June 2002

Website Unites Health Support Online

A new website aims to become the friends reunited of online health information services by linking together people who are
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5 June 2002

Milburn says NHS Falling Behind on IT

Health secretary Alan Milburn has characterised the NHS’s information technology as fragmented and piecemeal, with low levels of investment causing
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30 May 2002

DH Preparing £5 Billion IT Strategy

This week E-Health Insider provides an advance preview of the yet to be released, yet to be approved, draft implementation
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