12 March 2008

IHE to run first UK Connectathon

Next month a major milestone for clinical interoperability in healthcare will be achieved, with the first Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
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12 March 2008

NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’

NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a
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12 March 2008

Siemens unveil new radiology solutions at ECR

Siemens Healthcare unveiled a new portal of IT software for radiologists and other hospital personnel who work with imaging staff, known
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12 March 2008

Scottish NHS to receive £201m for e-health

Health boards across Scotland are to receive £201m to spend in areas such as e-health, primary care and primary and
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11 March 2008

GPSoC contracts due for completion this month

Connecting for Health (CfH) is predicting that all GP practices using eligible systems under the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC)
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11 March 2008

Olympus installs 100th lab automation software

Olympus’ OLA2500 lab automation system Olympus has installed its 100th laboratory automation software solution in Germany, helping laboratories to analyse
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11 March 2008

Johnson steps up pressure on 0844 numbers

Health secretary Alan Johnson has stepped up the pressure on practices using 0844 telephone numbers as campaigners draw up a
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11 March 2008

Four pilots for shared social care records

Three local authorities and one care trust are to pilot links between their social care systems and the NHS Personal
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11 March 2008

Moorfields develop glaucoma detection software

Experts at London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital have developed software to spot signs of glaucoma earlier than conventional tests. The team
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10 March 2008

EHTEL offers guidance on telemedicine strategies

The European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) has published a briefing paper looking at developments across the continent in telemedicine and
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