7 July 2008

Belgium hospitals use dbMotion for interoperability

IRIS, a network of five public hospitals in Brussels, is to implement a project to provide an interoperability platform for medical
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7 July 2008

CfH technology boss says paper not fit for purpose

Connecting for Health’s chief technology officer, Paul Jones has stressed the importance of integrating standards to achieve interoperability in healthcare,
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4 July 2008

CompuGroup goes into rehab

Germany’s CompuGroup has announced that it will buy 90% of All for One, a specialist provider of software for rehabilitation
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3 July 2008

GMC says patient confidentiality ‘is absolute’

Patient confidentiality is absolute; patients must give their consent before their data can be used, General Medical Council president, Sir
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2 July 2008

Asklepios rolls out video conferencing to all doctors

Asklepios is to install web-based videoconferencing equipment on the 13,000 PCs of all its medical doctors.
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1 July 2008

Data accreditation completed for 800 practices

Just over 800 GP practices have now had their data accredited as part of the directed enhanced service for IM&T.
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27 June 2008

Tories promise NHS information revolution

The Conservative Party has promised an “information revolution” in the NHS with a focus on health outcomes.
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26 June 2008

Royal United Hospital Bath shelves Millennium go-live

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust has shelved its planned 12 July implementation of a new Cerner Millennium patient record
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25 June 2008

Safer surgery checklist launched by WHO

The World Health Organisation has devised a new safety checklist designed to help cut the number of preventable surgical complications
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25 June 2008

Common assessment for adults pilot announced

The Department of Health will next month launch a call for interest in a pilot scheme for local authority-led consortia
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