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29 June 2006

Tablet tests

How did three E-Health Insider readers get on with new tablet PCs in their work? A GP, a dermatologist and
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19 June 2006

Kent and Medway trusts select McKesson child health

A consortium of acute and primary care trusts across Kent and Medway strategic health authority have selected McKesson’s CarePlus child
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24 April 2006

Students trial Mentor as teaching aid

Pharmacy students at Liverpool’s John Moores University (JMU) will be the first in the country to use the Mentor decision
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17 October 2005

Virtual healthcare research institute launched

A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in
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28 September 2005

Speech recognition helps King’s meet cancer target

Speech recognition technology has helped produce a 50% reduction in diagnostic reporting times according to a report of a recent
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23 August 2005

PDAs beat pagers for doctor response times, says study

A study published in the open-access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making has revealed that surgeons at a London
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19 August 2005

Europe-wide heart monitoring trial shows promise

The organisers of a recently completed pan-European trial aimed at finding out if telecare can be an effective tool in
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15 June 2005

Telecare specialist Tunstall bought in £225m deal

Tunstall, the specialist in personal and home telecare, has been acquired by private equity firm Bridgepoint from Hg Capital in
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29 April 2005

Hospital e-mail filter can weed out drug spam

Hammersmith Hospitals NHS trust has installed a spam e-mail filter which the manufacturers say is sophisticated enough to tell genuine
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19 January 2005

This time it’s personal

Why do we need electronic health records, anyway? Gerry Yantis and Manuel Lowenhaupt of CapGemini argue that the challenges faced
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