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16 June 2009

HealthSpace expansion plans shelved

The Department of Health has shelved plans for a massive expansion of its personal health record project, HealthSpace.
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15 June 2009

Money, money, money

The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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9 June 2009

Tories promise transparent procurement

Shadow health minister Stephen O’Brien has called more localised and transparent procurement in the NHS and an end to Labour’s
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4 June 2009

London runs reverse auctions for care

The London Procurement Programme has carried out a number of online reverse auctions for care for patients who are physically
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3 June 2009

Project develops smart clothes

Researchers in the UK have begun work on a project to develop hi-tech clothing for elderly people, with electronic devices
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2 June 2009

Patient told no electronic record, no care

A North London Mental health trust has said that any patients who refuse to have their data entered onto electronic
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29 May 2009

Million tune in for Twitter surgery

Channel Four has run a series of live surgery operations where viewers could directly question the surgeon live via microblogging
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28 May 2009

Permanente way

Kaiser Permanente is making rapid progress with electronic health records. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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28 May 2009

Consent back on LMCs’ agenda

Grassroots GPs are to return to the debate for an opt-in approach to the transfer of patient identifiable data and
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27 May 2009

CAF demonstrator details unveiled

The Department of Health has published an overview of the work being undertaken by the nine sites chosen as demonstrators
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