2003 - Digital Health

15 May 2003

The December 2004 target for implementing full electronic social care records (ESCR) is not achievable and the roll-out is now

14 May 2003

Improved communications systems that reflect the radically changed working practices in hospitals are vital to guarantee patient safety, a new

14 May 2003

The Department of Health is to introduce its own Gateway Review process to examine major NHS IT and building projects,

12 May 2003

Torex continued its march along the acquisition trail with the purchase of Protos Limited, the UK’s dominant provider of obstetric

8 May 2003

Two GPs from the Basque Country in northern Spain have been suspended without pay, apparently for refusing to use a

8 May 2003

Plans to save up to £500m a year in NHS administration costs through the introduction of a next generation standardised

8 May 2003

Findings from an international survey highlighting problems with quality of care and wasted resources make a “compelling case” for electronic

7 May 2003

Videophones designed by UK visual technology specialists Motion Media Technology are to be used to deliver ‘telehealth’ services in Belgium

6 May 2003

Details of the long-delayed project to put NHS jobs in England online have emerged from the Department of Health (DH).

1 May 2003

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

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