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1 August 2003

Health Information Infrastructure Act for US

A National Health Information Infrastructure Act has been introduced into the US Congress to support a national drive for interoperability
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31 July 2003

Cerner Brings in the Big Guns

Cerner, one of the contenders for local service provider (LSP) contracts to be awarded by the National Programme for IT
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23 July 2003

Long Term Approach to IT Reform for NHS Wales

A long term commitment to transforming healthcare using information and IT is outlined in NHS Wales’ new strategy, Informing Healthcare.
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17 July 2003

SNOMED ‘Highly Unlikely’ to Generate Revenue for NHS

Expected revenues from the NHS’ collaboration on SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT) have not been realised and the financial formula used
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3 July 2003

Granger Tells NHS Boards to Take on IT

A sign of the times was provided last week when it was standing room only at the NHS Confederation’s annual
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6 June 2003

NHS IT Programme Enters ‘Heartlands’

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS has published a brief progress update, stating that ‘the heartlands of
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29 May 2003

Two PCTs Choose Graphnet for Integrated Electronic Records

Halton primary care trust (PCT) and Warrington PCT are to develop an integrated XML-based repository of real-time patient records that
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20 May 2003

South West Collaborative EPR Procurements Ended

A series of collaborative NHS IT procurement projects for electronic patient record (EPR) systems in the South West had the
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1 May 2003

Philosophical Response to Blackberd’s Grounding

A philosophical response greeted the news that the Black Country and Birmingham Electronic Records Development project – Blackberd to its
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29 April 2003

Spring Quiz: The Answers

Thanks to everyone who entered the Spring Quiz. The winner is… Deirdre MacGuigan, Knowledge Development Co-ordinator, IM&T Modernisation Programme, Buckinghamshire
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