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Staff workflow key to health IT success, says study

Healthcare IT implementations could risk failure if care is not taken of how users react to the tasks they are
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Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’

A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS
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PCT agrees to fund infrastructure upgrade

A primary care trust has agreed to fund replacement servers for practices in its area just days before an arbitration
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Choose and Book target now March 2007

The target date for the implementation of Choose and Book has been moved back again, this time to March 2007.
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‘Plymouth’ offered as an interim solution

Connecting for Health has shelved plans to provide NHS acute trusts across three regions in England with an integrated, strategic
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White paper outlines IT role in community services

Patients will be able to complete an online self-assessment of their health and send it electronically to their GP to
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GPs highlight “clunky” functionality of C+B

The Choose and Book system is "clunky and cumbersome" and slower than the paper-based referral mechanism it is intended to
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CfH announces awards for health IT innovation

 Entries have opened for the 2006 Health Informatics Accolade Scheme, which aim to reward the innovative use of technology in
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iSoft warns of ‘significant’ NPfIT delays

British healthcare software developer iSOFT has warned that delays in delivering software to the UK National Health Service would slash
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PDA adapted to control intravenous pain-relief

  A US company has linked up an intravenous medication pump to a handheld computer that allows patients to control
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