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ASSIST attacks GP boycott of electronic records

The chairman of the Association for ICT Professionals in Health and Social Care (ASSIST) has condemned GPs for voting not
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Image-sharing over web helps child burn patients

Two west London hospitals, St Mary’s Paediatric A&E, Paddington, and Chelsea & Westminister’s specialist burns unit, have developed an electronic
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Blair: Choose and Book historic development

Tony Blair has defended the development of the NHS’s Choose and Book programme, the new name for the new NHS
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Does Dr Robot usher in new era of metal medics?

From automated call-centre systems to car assembly factories, it seems that wherever you look, a robot is waiting to take
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Citrix prescribes access strategy for health

Ever thought of having an IT access strategy for your trust?  Citrix thinks you should. E-Health Insider went along to
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Doctors to vote on national patient record system consent

Doctors attending next week’s British Medical Association Local Medical Committee conference are to vote on whether patients’ records should be
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Hospital introduces electronic social care referral

An NHS Foundation Trust has developed a seamless electronic social care referral system that ensures that social workers are fully
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Pro-BNP spam hits NHS inboxes

A spam e-mail sent to NHS staff urging them to vote for the BNP on June 10 and blaming ‘foreign
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National programme caught in spinal trap

With less than four weeks to go to the first scheduled release from the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), highly
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Mixed results for health websites in accessibility survey

The NHS Direct website is not accessible enough for disabled users and contains too many coding errors, whereas the new
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