Infrastructure

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27 January 2005

First NPfIT deployment plans released

The £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has published a summary of its deployment plans for the first time,
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26 January 2005

Medical equipment firm set to acquire IMPAC

Elekta AB, a Swedish-based medical technology firm specialising in cancer treatment, has acquired healthcare IT software house IMPAC Medical Systems, who
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22 December 2004

ID cards may become healthcare ‘entitlement’ cards

The National Programme for IT has begun initial conversations with the Home Office to examine how the IT infrastructure being
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22 December 2004

Lessons from America

E-Health Insider talks to David Brailer, national co-ordinator for health IT in the US, about how the US and English
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16 December 2004

Securing NHS Care Records

Duncan McNeil, chief technology officer for the National Programme for IT, explains how new NHS Smartcards will be used to
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26 November 2004

Internet telephones installed in hospital trusts

Two hospital trusts in London and Birmingham have had Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone systems installed across their sites
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16 November 2004

NHS CRS supplier wins top 50 growth award

Ardentia, who are supplying the data reporting software to BT Syntegra for implementation of the NHS Care Records Service, have
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15 November 2004

Patient database to boost research

The University of Birmingham is piloting a new computer network that will allow clinicians to register patients for clinical trials and
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1 November 2004

Open source software could save NHS money

The Office of Government Commerce has made recommendations that public procurement of software should consider open source solutions, citing, amongst
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12 October 2004

NPfIT procurement unfriendly for SMEs, says OFT

SMEs are being locked out of competition in many areas of public sector procurement, including the National Programme for IT,
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