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Liquidlogic system compliant with DCSF specification

Liquidlogic’s Protocol Integrated Children’s System (ICS) has become the first ICS solution to achieve full compliance with the Department for
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Commission calls for better use of information

High-quality information about patients’ care should be used better to measure how well providers are performing, the Healthcare Commission has
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DH to award Ā£80m contract for NHS Choices

The Department of Health has gone out to tender to find a new supplier to run the NHS Choices patient
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NHS leading public sector on shared services

A new study by the National Audit Office has praised the NHS for being at the forefront of adopting shared
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Ophthalmologists use ePortfolio for career development

Trainee doctor members of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists are using a new web-based system, ePortfolio from Premier IT, to
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Health on Net chosen for French websites

The French National Authority for Health (Haute Autorité de Santé – HAS), has chosen the online health information accreditation body
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CfH to spend a further Ā£6.4bn by 2011

Connecting for Health will spend a further Ā£6.4bn over the next four years to 2011, according to figures given by
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Children’s database delayed to review security

The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full
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Ehealth one of UKā€™s major future technologies

The government’s Council for Science and Technology (CST) has named e-health as one of the most promising technologies for the
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Overseas data work under review, say reports

The government is reportedly reviewing whether sensitive information about NHS patients could be sent overseas for processing. A leaked internal
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