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NI to issue large-scale telehealth tender

Northern Ireland’s Department of Health and Social Services is getting set to issue a tender for the supply of telehealth
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Scotland and NI tender for patient management system

Scotland and Northern Ireland have issued a joint tender to purchase a patient management system, with rich clinical functionality, worth
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Northern Ireland launches Emergency Care Record

Northern Ireland health minister, Michael McGimpsey, has launched the Northern Ireland Emergency Care Record – a new emergency care project
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Belfast gets European Connected Health centre

Belfast, Northern Ireland, is to be the home of a new ‘European Centre for Connected Health’, intended to help test
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Altnagelvin hospital system crashes

Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, Northern Ireland was left unable to make bookings for 48 hours last week due to ‘a
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Newgate Technology begins Northern Ireland EPR roll-out

Newgate Technology, a Scottish-based health software and data collection specialist, has won a tender to deploy a regional theatre management
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Patient Opinion website extends across England

Patient Opinion, the independent website founded by a Sheffield GP for recording good and bad comments on hospital care, goes
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Consumer is king in wireless health

More consumer-driven wireless developments are on the horizon as mobile technology enjoys wider adoption in healthcare.
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Nurses ‘losing enthusiasm’ for NHS IT reform

The number of nurses across the UK who believe in the benefits of IT reform in the NHS is falling,
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NI to link barcodes on prescriptions to EPRs

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland has announced it has signed a £6.8m contract
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