Health

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11 October 2004

Patient experience website breaks mental health taboo

Dipex, a charity that runs a number of support websites that contains personal testimonies from people who have suffered from
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22 September 2004

MedInfo 2004: a global view of health connectivity

Health IT leaders from England, Australia, Canada and the US met at the recent MedInfo 2004 conference to compare notes
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15 September 2004

Danes’ enthusiasm for net health gives way to apathy

Patients may be eager to use internet health management systems, but they run the risk of boring their patients, being over-complicated,
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25 August 2004

Market for health IT most favourable for big business

The European market for health information systems is likely to expand rapidly, but a number of difficulties stand in the
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23 August 2004

Biometric security used to access prison health records

Doctors working in prisons covered by Southwest Dorset Primary Care Trust (SWDPCT) are being asked to use biometric security to
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12 August 2004

Personal health record-keeping gets popular in US

Two in five adults in the US keep their own personal and family health records, with 13% of them keeping
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26 July 2004

Secure email for health unscrambles new markets

Kodak’s Secure Email System (SES), which up until now has been used solely in healthcare, has been made available to
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2 June 2004

Mixed results for health websites in accessibility survey

The NHS Direct website is not accessible enough for disabled users and contains too many coding errors, whereas the new
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27 May 2004

Armed forces march towards electronic health records

The MoD has announced the next stage of plans to introduce an electronic medical records system that will link to
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15 April 2004

Opinion: Time for SMEs in health IT to raise profile

Mark Simon, chairman of the new UK e-Health Association small and medium sized enterprise special interest group and chief executive
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