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18 June 2002

iSOFT Acquires Northgate Healthcare Business

Fast growing UK Health IT firm iSOFT has announced that it has agreed to buy rival Northgate Healthcare Business from
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11 June 2002

Australia Funds Research into Open Source EHR

The Australian Government has taken another step towards its plan to introduce a ‘lifetime’ electronic health record system following the
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5 June 2002

Scotland Invests in Joined up Health and Social Care

The Scottish Executive announced last week that it will invest in developing data sharing and common data standards to help
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30 May 2002

DH Preparing £5 Billion IT Strategy

This week E-Health Insider provides an advance preview of the yet to be released, yet to be approved, draft implementation
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27 May 2002

Health Data Protection Group Formed

The first meeting of the new Health Records and Data Protection Review Group, set up to advise the Government on
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27 May 2002

Milburn Promises “Large Scale” IT Investment

The Secretary of State Alan Milburn used his speech to the NHS Confederation conference on Friday to give the strongest
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16 May 2002

EDS is Preferred Supplier for NHS National e-Mail

EDS was named by the NHS Information Authority this week as the new preferred supplier for the NHS national e-mail
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16 May 2002

Survey Challenges Compulsory Patient Data Sharing

A new survey by ICM research finds that 95% of patients said they would not allow civil servants access to
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29 April 2002

MEDLINEplus Awarded URAC Quality Seal

Medlineplus, the online health information database service of the US National Library of Medicine (NLC), has been awarded health web
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18 April 2002

Health IT Leaders Welcome Wanless

From being strictly a minority interest healthcare Information and Communication technology (ICT) has suddenly moved to centre stage in British
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