2008 - Digital Health

9 October 2008

The DH has announced it will give an extra £11m to ten of the 11 dental teaching hospitals in England,

9 October 2008

NHS boards across Scotland are to share £1m to help them improve their IT security, beginning with securing USB ports.

9 October 2008

Health IT specialist iSoft says it will launch its RadCentre radiology information system in the Netherlands this autumn.

8 October 2008

NHS informatics professional body ASSIST has published a paper saying the original NHS National Programme for IT plan of a

8 October 2008

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, has implemented a wireless local area network (WLAN) supplied by French telecoms giant

8 October 2008

The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust will introduce SRC’s WinScribe digital dictation systems in a bid to meet Department

8 October 2008

The number two and three US health website networks are to merge to take on the might of market leader

7 October 2008

A London PCT is to pay its GPs £3.50 for every referral made under Choose and Book as trusts step

7 October 2008

GPs in some parts of England claim they are facing unworkable restrictions on the kind of third party IT they

7 October 2008

GP representatives claim PCTs are acting incorrectly by setting a minimum number of records that have to be electronically summarised

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