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15 February 2007

BMA chair says smart card policy ‘preposterous’

Connecting for Health’s policy of requiring doctors to repeatedly log-in with a smart card every time they use a computer
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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13 December 2006

Fujitsu hits 100m PACS images

Fujitsu Services, the NHS’s IT prime contractor for the South of England, has today recorded the 100 millionth patient image
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16 November 2006

BMA issues new guidance on NHS CRS

The BMA Chairman has written to all BMA members to provide them with guidance on the NHS Care Records Service
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2 October 2006

Metal medicine

E-Health Insider looks at the continuing work into robotics in healthcare being carried out by Imperial College, London.
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18 August 2006

Cerner switches on at St James, Dublin

A new Cerner system at St. James Hospital, Dublin, the Republic of Ireland’s largest hospital, combines data, imaging, orders and
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20 July 2006

NE trust faces clinical systems conundrum

A mental health trust board formed from three merged organisations has been advised to stop using a clinical information system
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19 July 2006

Cayton to lead summary records taskforce

Patients’ ‘tsar’ and chair of the Care Records Development Board, Harry Cayton, will lead the taskforce set up to help
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14 July 2006

Clinicians warn CRS will damage confidentiality

Concerns about the negative impact that the planned national database of patient records, the NHS Care Record Service national record, will
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19 May 2006

Accolades for clinical and IT collaboration

NHS Connecting for Health has awarded five accolades to NHS organisations for their work in improving patient led services where
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