18 May 2006

PACS underway in half of English trusts

Around half of trusts in England either have a picture archiving and communications system “happening, about to happen or happened”,
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18 May 2006

Number of PCTs to be halved

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt this week announced the reorganisation of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in England, almost halving the number
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18 May 2006

European ‘Connect-a-thon’ tests interoperability

Over 60 healthcare software companies and organisations from all over the world have gathered together in Spain to test the
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17 May 2006

NHS Direct announces cutbacks consultation

NHS Direct has launched a three month consultation with staff on proposals that will cut around 1,000 existing jobs. Reasons
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17 May 2006

Ascribe buys Jade Health

Acquisitive Bolton-based health IT group Ascribe has bought Jade Health from Jade Software Corporation, extending its product into mental health,
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17 May 2006

Innovation loss a cost in large contracts

The head of GE Healthcare Health Information Management in Europe has said that the decision to award contracts for England’s
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16 May 2006

Trusts can keep McKesson PAS systems to 2010

US healthcare IT giant McKesson has signed a deal with NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering
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16 May 2006

Technical problems with Choose and Book dog GPs

Frustrations with Choose and Book including problems reconciling GP records with the personal demographics service have prompted some GPs to
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16 May 2006

EPS passes million scrips milestone

More than a million prescriptions have been transmitted via the Electronic Prescription Service, Connecting for Health has announced. The agency
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16 May 2006

Historic medical journal articles to be available free

PubMed Central is to make over three million pages of historical medical journals available for free online, including significant milestones
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