22 November 2006

Telehealth innovations unveiled at conference

Partners Telemedicine, a US based telecare provider, have told a conference that patients should be encouraged to use ‘self care’
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22 November 2006

Virtual Consulting Room successfully piloted

A Virtual Consulting Room offering healthcare professionals the facility to compare notes for medical consultations has been developed by staff
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21 November 2006

NHS broadband leaves GPs in slow lane

Many GP practices are struggling with inadequate broadband speeds over N3 (the new NHS National Network) which are slowing down
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21 November 2006

GPs threaten to block national patient database

One in two GPs have signalled their intention not to upload patients’ clinical details to the NHS Care Records Service
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21 November 2006

Fair deal on NHS broadband

This week EHI Primary Care launches Fair Deal on NHS Broadband, a campaign to get GPs the fast broadband they
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21 November 2006

Survey shows waning medical support for NPfIT

A picture of declining support among doctors for the National Programme for IT emerges from the latest Medix survey of
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21 November 2006

NHS Scotland signs £300m deal with Atos Origin Alliance

A consortia lead by Atos Origin has been awarded a £300m contract to be NHS Scotland’s Information Management and Technology
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20 November 2006

UK practices best for IT to track medical errors

GPs in the UK are well ahead of colleagues around the world in having information systems which track medical errors,
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20 November 2006

Royal Free launches GUM text appointment booking

A new text messaging service allowing patients to make appointments for treatment at a time convenient for them is to be launched
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20 November 2006

Informatics studentship available at Kingston

Kingston University is currently offering PhD studentships in a number of research projects in health computing and informatics subjects available
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