23 August 2005

IT may solve feedback problems on cancer referrals

A study published in the European Journal of Cancer Care about feedback given to GPs who refer patients with ovarian
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23 August 2005

PCT IT service agreement still missing

A service level agreement to guarantee the level of IT service practices should receive from primary care trusts under the
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23 August 2005

A new era of choice?

Sean Riddell, deputy managing director of EMIS, examines the current climate five months after the DH announced it would allow
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23 August 2005

PDAs beat pagers for doctor response times, says study

A study published in the open-access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making has revealed that surgeons at a London
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22 August 2005

NHS 24 buys knowledge management system

Information and knowledge management consultancy LSC Group is to provide a knowledge management system including geographic information system for NHS
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22 August 2005

Pancreatic cancer surgery gets 3D imaging

  Scientists at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) have developed software that can generate three-dimensional models of the pancreas
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19 August 2005

‘Unplugged’ Choose and Book offered for download

Connecting for Health have released a browser-based, limited-functionality demonstration of Choose and Book for anyone to download. Entitled Choose and Book
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19 August 2005

Europe-wide heart monitoring trial shows promise

The organisers of a recently completed pan-European trial aimed at finding out if telecare can be an effective tool in
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18 August 2005

Over 1,000 new NHS IT systems deployed

Connecting for Health (CfH), the Department of Health’s IT agency, has said that just over 1,000 system deployments had been made in the
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18 August 2005

Understanding e-learning

Dr Wassila Mehanna, e-learning consultant at Teknical, takes an academic perspective on the history and potential of the technology.
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