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27 August 2008

Police to get access to national child database

Police are to be given access to the Government’s new children’s database, in order to search for evidence of criminal
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25 August 2008

Information prescriptions to be linked to electronic records

The Department of Health is this week expected to set out its vision for information prescriptions that are linked to
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22 August 2008

Estonia takes steps to e-health

The Estonian Government this week approved of the package of regulations which paves the way to the introduction of digital
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21 August 2008

Conservatives commission review of NHS IT

The Conservative Party has commissioned an independent review of NHS IT policy to be led by Dr Glyn Hayes.
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20 August 2008

Medical data breach insurance offered in US

Members of a US healthcare purchasing alliance are now able to take out insurance to cover the financial costs of data breaches.  The
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19 August 2008

Half of Scottish prescriptions sent electronically

Over half of all NHS prescriptions issued in Scotland are now sent electronically, latest figures show. Since the start of
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18 August 2008

DH gives go-ahead for EPS Release 2

A regulatory impact assessment has given the green light to the next stage of the Electronic Prescriptions Service – one
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15 August 2008

EHI’s news roundup 15.08.08

E-Health Insider's news round up for the week ending 15 August features supplier news and information on newly published research
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14 August 2008

Canada’s Infoway says 254 EHR projects underway

Canada’s electronic health record projects have quadrupled since 2004, according to the head of the Canadian health IT agency. Investment
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13 August 2008

Health bodies to get details of citizens’ email and internet use

Public bodies in the UK, including health authorities, could be given the power to access details of everyone’s personal text
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