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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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21 March 2002

DH Presents Blueprint for IT Transformation

A plan for transforming NHS IT is on its way to the Treasury this week. If all goes well, the
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14 March 2002

Government Urged to be Patient on Patient Records

The Government should accept that the 2005 target for electronic patient records will be missed and not be panicked into
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5 March 2002

Fife Signs up for Oasis

Fife Acute Hospitals Trust has awarded a 15-year contract for electronic patient records (EPR) to Siemens Healthcare who will be
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4 March 2002

Consultation on Open Source Software (OSS) Strategy Nears End

The NHS information Authority has published a reminder that the consultation period for the Office of the e-Envoy’s draft Government
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30 January 2002

InHealth Group Buys UK Arm of IBA Health

InHealth Group, the acquisitive UK health services, equipment and IM&T firm, today announced it has acquired the UK business of
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25 January 2002

NAO Praises NHS Direct Implementation

The first national evaluation of NHS Direct, the flagship NHS nurse-led telephone health advice service, concludes that the service has
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22 January 2002

Technology Adoption Likely to be Slow in 2002, say Gartner

Technology advances such as the use of XML, mobile technologies, speech recognition, workflow, business process management and public key infrastructure
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18 January 2002

Government Response to Kennedy Throws Spotlight on Information

A new Office of Information on Health Care Performance is to be set up as part of the government response
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16 January 2002

Seminars to Drive Message on Information Security

The NHS Information Authority has embarked on a mission to explain the international standard on information security management, ISO 17799,
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