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23 February 2005

Privacy key for US electronic health records

US health information technology interests have expressed great concern about guarding the privacy of patient data in building a National
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10 February 2005

Outside the inbox

Chris Booth, who has been working with SMS and healthcare for several years, says that text messaging can do more
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22 December 2004

ID cards may become healthcare ‘entitlement’ cards

The National Programme for IT has begun initial conversations with the Home Office to examine how the IT infrastructure being
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8 December 2004

InPS claims increased market share

InPractice Systems (InPS) have announced an increase of market share in its primary care information software Vision 3 that now
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8 December 2004

RFID tags in the NHS could lead to job losses

The introduction of wireless tagging such as RFID technology in the NHS could result in job losses due to the removal
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30 November 2004

NHSU folds in arm’s length review

The NHSU which was hailed as the NHS’s corporate university and promised innovative learning from a virtual campus is to fold.
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24 November 2004

GE wins £110m PACS contract for South of England

GE Healthcare has signed with Fujitsu Services Ltd to provide Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) across the whole of
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21 October 2004

A few billion between friends?

After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check
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13 September 2004

McKesson launches text appointment reminder service

McKesson, one of the largest existing suppliers of hospital patient administration systems, has a launched an automated text message reminder
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1 September 2004

E-prescribing benefits flow for Liverpool hospital

Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust has announced the completion of e-prescribing in all but one of its in-patient clinical areas. 
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