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16 February 2010

CQC raises discharge concerns

Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according
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11 February 2010

Tories to publish government contracts

David Cameron has announced that the Conservative Party would publish details of all government contracts for goods and services worth
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11 February 2010

Bulgarian military deploys smart cards

Bulgaria has begun deploying smart cards to provide secure access to the electronic health records of military personnel and their
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10 February 2010

Health 2.0 comes to Europe

The first European Health 2.0 conference, on how web 2.0 and social media are transforming healthcare systems in Europe, will
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8 February 2010

Kent and Medway virtualises desktops

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has chosen a thin client strategy to cope with increasing demands
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8 February 2010

IBM to acquire Initiate Systems

IBM has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Initiate Systems for an undisclosed sum. Initiate is best known
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3 February 2010

Telehealth put on the (Google) map

More than a third of primary care trusts are involved with telehealth programmes, according to the Department of Health‘s Telecare
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2 February 2010

Cyber patients cause GPs anxiety

GPs feel anxious when patients bring information from the internet to a consultation, but are developing strategies to overcome their
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1 February 2010

Bulgaria rapped on social care spectrum

The European Commission has started legal action against Bulgaria after the country failed to follow EU rules to make the
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28 January 2010

First European deal for HealthVault

Microsoft and Siemens have signed an agreement to licence Microsoft’s personal health record platform, HealthVault, in Germany.
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