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6 March 2008

Greater Manchester extends telemedicine pilot

The Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network has extended its pilot of a telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch, to
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4 March 2008

Patient information: how ICTs can help

Fiona Barr looks at the role information technology can play in providing greater information for patients.
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26 February 2008

North Lincs community nurses get mobile

Community nurses in North Lincolnshire are to get wireless rugged laptops in one of the largest deployments yet of mobile
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29 January 2008

Evidence gap on telehealth needs to be filled

More work is needed to fill the evidence gap on telehealth if it is to enter the mainstream, according to
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19 December 2007

Heart check-ups by phone offered over Christmas

Over 100 GP practices in the North West of England will be offering patients heart check-ups over the phone during
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5 November 2007

Patient data extraction software dropped by DH

The Department of Health has dropped plans to use Apollo software to extract patient data from GP practice systems this
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16 October 2007

GPs voice key concerns over IT

GPs believe national IT projects are getting priority over their day-to-day IT needs and say problems with servers and desktops
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18 September 2007

Conference to focus on patient-controlled records

Patient controlled records will be the focus of the British Computer Society’s Primary Health Care Specialist Group annual conference next
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18 September 2007

Practices told to update own NHS Choices details

The Department of Health says it is trying to improve the accuracy of primary care information on its flagship NHS
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12 September 2007

Community pharmacists to get NHSmail

Community pharmacists in England are to get access to NHSmail for the first time from the beginning of 2008. Until
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