28 July 2009

CompuGroup subsidiary wins Turkish deal

CompuGroup’s Turkish subsidiary Promed has won a €1.2m deal from insurance firm Axa to support claims handling and processing. CompuGroup
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27 July 2009

FluSurvey surveillance website launched

A website that will provide up-to-date information and surveillance on swine flu has been launched by the London School of
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27 July 2009

Quality down for non-QoF care

The Quality and Outcomes Framework has led to a reduction in the quality of care for activities not included in
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24 July 2009

Swine flu website crashes on launch day

The National Pandemic Flu Service website crashed on the day it was launched after the site recorded more than 9.3m
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24 July 2009

Camera phones can help diagnosis

Taking photographs or video of unusual symptoms on an ordinary camera phone can help doctors diagnose uncommon problems, according to
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23 July 2009

Stop the clot

Dr Maureen Baker CBE, clinical director for patient safety at NHS Connecting for Health, talks about developing a risk assessment
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23 July 2009

Nanotechnology gets big in Portugal

The leaders of Spain and Portugal have opened a joint research centre for nanotechnology that they believe will become one
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20 July 2009

Swine Flu tracking on Qsurveillance

Healthcare IT system supplier EMIS is encouraging its GPs practices to sign up to its primary care tracking database QSurveillance
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20 July 2009

Bupa selects MedSpeech digital dictation

Sweden’s Euromed Networks and e-Dict have been awarded a contract to supply MedSpeech digital dictation with integrated SpeechMagic speech recognition
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16 July 2009

Vaulting ambition

The Conservatives may give commercial health record platforms a big role in their NHS IT strategy. But how are they
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