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5 July 2005

Fingerprint health record access wins £3,000 prize

  A group of GP practices, which enable patients to access their records using biometrics and view health information and book
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17 June 2005

UK is Europe’s “star” in health information websites

The United Kingdom’s health services have come top of a European-wide healthcare survey for patient access to information due to
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16 June 2005

Welsh health IT prepares for delivery

The Welsh NHS IT reform programme, Informing Healthcare (IHC), has just released its National Case document and formally set up
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9 June 2005

‘Soft camera’ could keep watch on health records

Healthcare applications for ‘soft camera’ technology that provides a keystroke-by-keystroke replay of actions performed on a file or record are
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1 June 2005

Irish GPs launch £1.35m health web portal

The Irish College of General Practitioners has launched healthhub.ie, a €2m (£1.35m) health information website aimed at both healthcare professionals and the
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17 May 2005

Free UK online health journal planned

The Wellcome Trust and the US National Library of Medicine are intending to set up a UK-based version of the
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11 May 2005

National US personal health record launched

Medem, a not-for-profit company created by leading US medical societies including the American Medical Association, announced this week the national
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4 May 2005

Merck wins Webby health award

The winners of the ninth annual Webby awards, billed as the Oscars of the Internet, have been announced with a
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3 May 2005

Americans want personal health records

The majority of Americans want to be able to access an online personal health record (PHR), providing them with details
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20 April 2005

‘State of the art’ review of health IT announced

The National Patient Safety Research Programme has issued a call for a systematic review of internationally available research on the
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