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Arresting ideas

Clinicians who work in police custody in four counties in south-east England are being supported by a new software suite,
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ETP potential

EHI talks to Tim Donohoe, group director at Connecting for Health, about the development of the national electronic prescribing service.
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Digital geographic information deal puts NHS on the map

More than 600 NHS organisations in England are to gain direct access to the Ordnance Survey’s most detailed digital geographic
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Making NP fit

Access to centralised records as promised by NPfIT will force a redesign of the way information is handled in the
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International standards organisation for SNOMED proposed

SNOMED International, an arm of The College of American Pathologists (CAP) and NHS Connecting for Health, the agency in charge
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From dependence to responsibility

In the first of a two part article, Iain Anderson from Capgemini looks at the drivers for change in the
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Investment in clinical coding now critical

NHS trusts must urgently invest in the financial and performance management and supporting information systems, the Audit Commission says in
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Universal CRS sheds bright light on old issues

Many of the questions raised by electronic records are not new, but their universal nature sheds a bright light on
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NHS chief executive calls for investment in IT

NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp has called on trusts to make greater use of shared back office functions such as
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CfH could face a £10 billion funding gap

 A new consultation paper produced by an influential health computing industry group has raised concerns about the medium-term funding of
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