19 June 2007

GPs say Choose and Book currently ‘unfit for purpose’

GP representatives have rejected calls for Choose and Book to be suspended but have branded the scheme as currently unfit
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19 June 2007

Carestream and Hitachi create clinical data store

Carestream Health and Hitachi Data Systems have announced they have collaborated to create a powerful data management solution that will
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19 June 2007

E-mail with patients will demand new skills

E-mail communication with patients will require astute judgement from doctors about which correspondents need to be evaluated in person and
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19 June 2007

DH explains summary and detailed records

Guidance on how the two elements of the NHS electronic patient record – the detailed and summary records – will
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18 June 2007

Initiate signs agreement with SQLI Groupe

Initiate Systems, the supplier of patient data management and enterprise master patient index solutions, has announced a new strategic agreement with
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18 June 2007

Fulsome praise for departing CfH boss

The news that Richard Granger is to leave Connecting for Health and the helm of the NHS IT Programme later
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18 June 2007

Telemedicine growing in use in Germany

Nearly 2000 patients with chronic heart problems and 200 with diabetes are now being monitored through a BKK Taunus telemedicine
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18 June 2007

CSC approves IBA’s purchase of iSoft

iSoft Group Plc has announced that it has this morning signed an agreement with Computer Sciences Corporation that will see
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16 June 2007

Granger to leave in transition by end of 2007

Connecting for Health chief executive, Richard Granger is to leave the agency responsible for delivering the National Programme for IT
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15 June 2007

EC looks to IT to help support older people

The European Commission has unveiled plans for a new €1bn European Action Plan to research the effectiveness of the use
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