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Choose and Book hits 10m bookings

Connecting for Health has announced that the electronic booking system Choose and Book has been used to make more than
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Canada’s Infoway says 254 EHR projects underway

Canada’s electronic health record projects have quadrupled since 2004, according to the head of the Canadian health IT agency. Investment
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Bucks had CRS infection control issues for 18 months

Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust was forced to develop workarounds for isolating MRSA patients after Cerner’s Millennium care records system was
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Health bodies to get details of citizens’ email and internet use

Public bodies in the UK, including health authorities, could be given the power to access details of everyone’s personal text
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Health bodies could access communication logs

Public bodies, including health authorities, could be able to access information about all personal calls and internet use under proposals
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The Adventurous 4.0

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Choose and Book’s national medical director, Dr Stephen Miller, outlines the
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Open Health Tools accepts code donation

Open Health Tools (OHT) today announced it has accepted a code donation from the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) of key
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US-wide EHRs priced at $150 billion

The full implementation of a digital US healthcare system, with integrated networked electronic health records (EHR) in all US doctors’
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Automated COPD warnings cut hospital admissions

An automated telephone alert system to warn people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) about forthcoming bad weather has cut
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Walsall begins in-house e-discharge project

Walsall Manor Hospital has begun the first stage of an in-house electronic discharge summary project, designed to increase communication between
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