Interoperability

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8 April 2003

The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say

At HC2003 NHS IT director-general Richard Granger said that he wanted a debate about whether there were viable alternatives to
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27 March 2003

‘Trust Me’, I’m the Director-General

NHS Director-General of IT Richard Granger this week used his first major public speech to make a personal appeal to
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20 March 2003

IBM and Newchurch to build ICRS demonstrator

A contract has been awarded to IBM and Newchurch to develop a prototype primary care shared clinical information service for
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14 January 2003

AAFP Explores Open-Source EHR

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is considering developing and selling low-cost "open-source" electronic medical records (EMR) software to
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4 December 2002

Show Power To Deliver, Granger Tells Suppliers

NHS IT Tsar Richard Granger pledged this week that a new procurement strategy will be published in January 2003 and
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13 November 2002

Why Are GP Practices More Computerised Than Hospitals?

Scalability and incentives are suggested as the two key factors that explain why British GPs are far more likely to
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11 June 2002

Australia Funds Research into Open Source EHR

The Australian Government has taken another step towards its plan to introduce a ‘lifetime’ electronic health record system following the
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18 April 2002

Health IT Leaders Welcome Wanless

From being strictly a minority interest healthcare Information and Communication technology (ICT) has suddenly moved to centre stage in British
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17 April 2002

New Approach on Electronic Records Needed

Despite the investment of tens of billions of Euros in healthcare IT the industry worldwide has failed to deliver on
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14 March 2002

EPR at the Heart of NHS Redesign

Electronic patient records (EPRs) are good news for NHS organisations and patients, but recent academic research by the NHS Confederation’s
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