2005 - Digital Health

18 October 2005

EHI Primary Care looks at Connecting for Health's work in updating health IT in prisons, and progress in a similar

18 October 2005

The ethics committee of the Royal College of GPs has recommended that patients must have the right to opt-in to

18 October 2005

Advances in subcutaneous sensors that will enable patients to be monitored wirelessly are reported this week by researchers in Finland.

18 October 2005

Health minister Rosie Winterton is to unveil a new site for renal patients that will allow them to manage their

17 October 2005

A Scottish scheme using automated calling to contact patients and remind them of their hospital appointments has been withdrawn after

17 October 2005

A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in

14 October 2005

BT has been warned by NHS IT boss Richard Granger that they must hit a 28 November deadline to switch

14 October 2005

Electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) will be deployed over two releases and should be fully operational by the end of

14 October 2005

People who choose to work in health informatics have had a ‘fairly rough ride’ with no obvious career pathways and

13 October 2005

Cisco Systems Inc. has announced a series of new applications that are now available as part of its Medical Grade

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