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10 October 2005

Universities and WHO aiming for e-health for poor

The World Health Organisation is to start work with 17 universities across the world to bring e-health to developing countries, it
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6 October 2005

Cash injection

After GE's purchase of IDX, are more medical systems companies eyeing up the healthcare IT market? Industry analyst James MacPherson
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26 September 2005

Cancer case repository launched to aid research

A new cancer case repository that is able to extract information from the wide variety of sources in an electronic
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20 September 2005

Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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15 September 2005

Pathology tech revamp to be ‘re-energised’ by DH

Pathology test results being sent electronically to care providers overnight, and testing facilities being made available in non-traditional settings, are
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13 September 2005

New software for logging drug enquiries ready

New software that helps pharmacists in local medicine information centres to record and audit clinician enquiries about medication has been released
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2 September 2005

Illegal online pharmacies ‘threat to public health’

A paper published by think-tank the Centre for Reform has warned of the dangers of unregulated online pharmacies and is
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26 August 2005

SMS event alert system planned for care workers

iSentry have announced the release of their Digital Witness service, a web-based compliance monitoring and alert system aimed at health
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25 August 2005

Australian e-health framework calls for open standards

  Australia’s agency responsible for delivering e-health throughout the country, the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), has just published guidelines
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15 August 2005

National Knowledge Service aims high

Building a centralised electronic National Knowledge Service, that will deliver focused clinical knowledge to clinicians when they need it, has
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