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12 March 2008

NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’

NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a
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4 March 2008

ANS Group to pilot voice based asset tracking

New wireless technology which enables a user to track the location of equipment or drugs using their voice is ready
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19 February 2008

Health informatics one of the ‘grand challenges’

Advancing health informatics has been listed as one of the 21st century’s greatest challenges by a panel of leading engineers
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15 February 2008

EHI’s industry news roundup 15.02.08

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 15 February 2008 featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and
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6 February 2008

NHSmail users have mailbox shrunk

NHS staff who use the health service’s email service NHSmail have been informed that after a recent move to Microsoft
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28 January 2008

Cerner to integrate BNF into Millennium

Cerner is to integrate the British National Formulary’s (BNF) medicines information with the Cerner Millennium software for hospital systems in
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24 January 2008

Eighty trusts sign up to ‘scan and save’

The GS1 asset tracking technology in use. Radio Frequency Identification and barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that almost eighty
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17 January 2008

Ex-IC chief lodges ‘scapegoat’ claim

The former chief executive of the Information Centre (IC) has claimed that she was made a “scapegoat” for the heavily
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10 January 2008

The big screen

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to introduce free screening for stroke, diabetes, heart and kidney disease. Joe Fernandez looks
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10 December 2007

NHS Fife use Siemens to integrate systems

NHS Fife is extending the scope of its Oasis patient administration system to include community and mental health services.
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