2002 - Digital Health

25 October 2002

The government plans to publish the full version of its procurement strategy for the NHS IT programme by December 2002,

24 October 2002

EPR systems vendor, ComMedica, this week claimed a UK “first” by announcing that it had incorporated SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT)

24 October 2002

A survey of European internet users found that 50% said they want to be able to email their doctor, schedule

23 October 2002

SureScript Systems has completed a series of agreements to introduce a common electronic prescribing system that will cover most US drug

22 October 2002

An ambitious e-health programme is being introduced in one of the world’s poorest countries to help rural doctors get online

21 October 2002

Rising levels of basic IT competence are recorded in 2002 National Health Informatics Competency Survey – but the NHSIA has

17 October 2002

“The most dangerous instrument in medicine is the fountain pen,” according to group president of McKesson, Duncan James, interviewed in

17 October 2002

The long-awaited strategy for health information in Wales proposes a corporate, all-Wales approach to the development of electronic records and

16 October 2002

IBM, Oxford University and the U.K. government have announced plans to build a distributed computing network, or next generation ‘data

15 October 2002

The NHS Information Authority’s Industry Liaison team has launched a new website designed to enable suppliers and would be suppliers

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