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27 March 2009

Work stops again on ContactPoint

The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been suspended after local authority staff discovered loopholes in the system
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26 March 2009

McKesson set for UK hospital return

McKesson, the number two supplier of NHS patient administration systems, is weighing a return to the English hospital market -
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26 March 2009

Over here

Is Cerner Millennium over big, over corporate and over hard to deploy? Or is it a great system that just
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25 March 2009

Vascular pods from Telehealth Solutions

Telehealth Solutions has developed a series of ‘pods’ or touch-screen devices that it says can be used to support the national vascular
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24 March 2009

Med-e-Tel to focus on spreading telemedicine

The first Med-e-Tel telemedicine and e-health conference to be held since the European Commission’s Telemedicine Communication will take place in Luxembourg
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23 March 2009

Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database

A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal
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20 March 2009

Clinical Solutions partners with Fujitsu in Spain

Fujitsu and Clinical Solutions have announced a partnership to improve access to healthcare advice and services in Spain. Under the
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19 March 2009

IT vital to pharmacy progress

Use of the NHS Care Records Service by community pharmacists will be an essential part of the reform agenda for
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17 March 2009

Choose and stuck

Choose and Book usage is stuck at around 50%. Are there fundamental problems with the electronic booking system?
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17 March 2009

Laming – review IT for children’s services

The government must look at rolling out a single national IT system for children’s services because local IT systems are
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