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ICW says LifeSensor can handle 10,000 users

Simulated benchmark tests carried out on InterComponentWare’s LifeSensor personal health record (PHR) have shown that the system can handle 10,000
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Patient Opinion mashes up NHS Choices

Patient Opinion has announced a “mash-up” with NHS Choices comments released onto a Cabinet Office website to promote new uses
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Italian WiMAX ambulance project launched

A new ambulance communications system is using high speed, long distance WiMAX wireless connections to enable doctors to diagnose and
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Carestream rolls out French ‘pay-as-you-go’ PACS

Carestream Health, formerly Kodak Health, has announced that 37 privately owned French medical facilities are now using its Hosted Information
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Doctors complain about rating website

Doctors have complained to the Information Commissioner about the doctors’ rating website iwantgreatcare.org. The site www.iwantgreatcare.org was launched last month
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Choose and Book fails to offer choice

Choose and Book failed to deliver its promise of choice of hospital, time and date of apppintment , a newly-published
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Mid-Yorkshire earns £80,000 from 0844 number

A hospital trust has revealed that it has made more than £80,000 from use of a 0844 telephone number over
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South may split between CSC and BT

No single prime contractor may be appointed to replace Fujitsu in the programme to upgrade NHS IT systems in the
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Hopsitals’ 084 numbers makes trust £80,000

GP practices and hospitals may face increased pressure over use of 084 telephone numbers following a revelation from a hospital
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Yorkshire HIS audits software assets electronically

The Health Informatics Service, which provides IT services to 12 healthcare organisations across South West Yorkshire, can now electronically audit
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