Efficiency

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2 April 2007

Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England

The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP
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20 March 2007

First GP2GP records transferred between different systems

The first GP2GP record transfers between different GP computer systems has taken place, health minister Lord Hunt has announced. The
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13 March 2007

Microsoft’s NHS Common User Interface unveiled

Microsoft UK has revealed the first fruits of its four year £40 million collaboration with Connecting for Health to develop
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12 March 2007

BMA sits on critical Choose and Book survey results

The British Medical Association has decided not to publish its own survey of Choose and Book which is highly critical
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5 March 2007

Unified communications in healthcare

Single, converged networks supporting IP telephony, videoconferencing, video-on-demand and contact centres offer benefits for healthcare that should not be ignored,
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28 February 2007

Five trusts sign up for e-rostering software

Five NHS trusts and a private hospital group are set to adopt Manpower Software’s MAPS Healthroster system which is designed to ease
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20 February 2007

Mobile phones: the new tool to combat AIDS in Africa

Mobile phones will be used to help fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, it was announced at the 3GSM World
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8 February 2007

Kodak Health to be renamed Carestream Health

Eastman Kodak Health Group will be renamed Carestream Health Inc once the sale of the company to Canada’s Onex Corporation
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1 February 2007

Milton Keynes PCT mandates Choose and Book use

A primary care trust has told its GPs that referral letters sent direct to a local hospital will be returned
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31 January 2007

Southend completes three-way integration with McKesson

Southend Hospital NHS Trust has implemented a new Radiology Information System enabling the hospital to complete three-way integration between the
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