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Shortlisted LSPs Notified

A further key stage in the national procurement for Integrated Care Records Services (ICRS) was reached on Friday when firms
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Tablet PC Vs PDA – The Debate Continues (Part 3)

Over the past month E-Health Insider readers have debated the relative merits of PDAs and Tablet PCs in healthcare. This
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ISoft and Torex Announce Merger Plans

iSoft and Torex, two of the UK’s leading health IT firms announced this week that they intended to merge to
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SNOMED ‘Highly Unlikely’ to Generate Revenue for NHS

Expected revenues from the NHS’ collaboration on SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT) have not been realised and the financial formula used
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Healthcare Interoperability Forum in ‘Abeyance’

The Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF), an industry group of leading system suppliers focused on developing common standards, has gone
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ETP Pilots Ended for 5,000 Patients

The two remaining operational pilots for electronic transfer of prescriptions ETP are to be ended by the Department of Health
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IT Impact Likely To Be Greater Than Foundation Status?

The NHS IT strategy is likely to have a greater effect on the service over the next five years than
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Granger: Rip and Replace Fears Unfounded

Fears of a wholesale rip and replace strategy to update NHS IT are unfounded and existing ‘legacy’ systems will continue
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GPC Chair Pledges Practices Will Retain Choice

Dr John Chisolm, chairman of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) General Practitioners Committee (GPC) has pledged to fight to defend
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“NHS Has Not Yet Dreamed of the Things IT Can Do” – Confed Chief

The NHS Confederation annual conference opens in Glasgow next week so E-Health Insider fixed an interview with its chief executive,
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