25 April 2008

NEC to provide methadone dispensers to prisons

NEC UK has signed a five-year framework agreement with the Department of Health to provide biometric-based Computer Controlled Methadone Dispensing
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24 April 2008

Southern trusts hit by CRS failure

The Millennium NHS Care Records System application, meant to become the critical clinical system used by NHS staff across Southern
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23 April 2008

Wales extends use of emergency care record

Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, has announced that it is to pilot an extension of the emergency care
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23 April 2008

Mobile monitoring for Barmer customers

Barmer Ersatzkasse, Germany’s biggest health insurance company, has begun to offer its 7m customers mobile phone based fitness monitoring. The
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23 April 2008

CfH buys 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards

Connecting for Health has purchased 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards as part of a new initiative to help keep IT equipment infection
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22 April 2008

Prof Sir Bruce Keogh interim DH IT director general

Sir Professor Keogh, the Department of Health’s medical director, is to become the department’s interim director general of informatics. He
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22 April 2008

Infrastructure gap between NHS trusts growing

The gap between the best and the worst NHS trusts on the effectiveness of their IT infrastructure and operations is
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21 April 2008

Readers’ insight into e-prescribing needed…

EHI is calling for readers to provide their views on the development of acute e-prescribing to inform a round table
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21 April 2008

Swindells to urge NHS IT pros to play part

The departing Department of Health CIO Matthew Swindells is expected to use his keynote speech at Healthcare Computing today to call on
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21 April 2008

Scottish government funds telecare and IT research

University of Edinburgh is to receive a share of £4m funding from the Scottish government to research telemetric supported self-monitoring
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