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CfH seeks acute trust for blood barcoding pilot

NHS Connecting for Health and the National Patient Safety Agency have announced they are looking for an acute trust to
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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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CfH accused of ‘sham’ on clinical consultation

Perhaps the most unexpected part of the Commons Public Accounts Committee hearing on the National Programme for IT this week was the
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Targetting cancer

Acute trusts are successfully developing their own software and work practices to deal with the 62-day cancer waiting times target.
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LogicaCMG to supply armed forces with EHRs by 2010

 LogicaCMG has won the £80m contract to fully supply the armed services with electronic health records by 2010, following a
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Systems must be good enough to stop short cuts

New systems for the NHS must be so good that staff aren’t tempted to find ‘work arounds’ that jeopardise security,
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Meet the suppliers: Healthy Software

E-Health Insider meets one GP system supplier which has adapted to the National Programme for IT by reinventing itself.
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Younger people more likely to use mobile healthcare

  Younger people are more likely to call NHS Direct on their mobiles than make an appointment to see their
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Ready for liftoff

The MOD is about to announce its final plans for electronic health records in the military. Jon Hoeksma looks at
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BCS announces speaker line-up for HC2006

The British Computer Society has announced details of its speaker line-up for this year’s HC2006 health informatics conference at Harrogate,
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