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19 November 2007

DH maintains commitment to choice

Health secretary Alan Johnson has pledged a commitment to choice, despite pulling the plug on a series of independent sector
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16 November 2007

Health secretary’s website wins access award

Health secretary Alan Johnson’s website won the top prize for accessibility in the British Computer Society (BCS) MP Website Awards. Johnson, who
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15 November 2007

Government says no plans to devolve CfH power

The government has rejected calls to hand over greater contractual power to trusts and strategic health authorities.
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15 November 2007

Select committee transparency call rejected

A call from the Commons Health Select Committee calling for more transparency from Connecting for Health has been rejected by
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26 October 2007

New information governance board announced

Members of the new National Information Governance Board for health and social care in England, the body who will be
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18 October 2007

The XDS factor

Interest is growing in Cross Enterprise Document Sharing as a system for storing and transmitting clinical data. Nick Brown and
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18 October 2007

Smartphone patient monitoring showcased

Finland’s, eHIT, a specialist in healthcare software, has developed a new patient sensor and smartphone-based monitoring system, to deliver round-the-clock
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17 October 2007

German insurance firms merge IT departments

In January 2008 over 200 German health insurance companies will combine their IT departments to form one company. This is
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10 October 2007

Mid Cheshire switch to Ascribe e-prescribing

Pharmacists at the Mid Cheshire NHS Hospitals Trust have started using a web-based e-pharmacy system from Ascribe to fully automate
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8 October 2007

dbMotion extend interoperability in Franche-Comté

The French region of Franche-Comté is to receive an expanded interoperability platform based on their Personal Medical File (DMP-fc) system,
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