23 May 2005

Judge for yourself

Do electronic health records have any force in law? American correspondent Neil Versel reports from the TEPR conference in Salt
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20 May 2005

Patients to get veto on details recorded to spine

Patients may after all be allowed to decide to withhold sensitive information from the central electronic record system, known as
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20 May 2005

BT results show good returns on NHS contracts

BT have released their annual results, revealing generally good returns with regards to public sector contracts and a turnover of
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20 May 2005

N3 hits 6,000 installations milestone

More than 6000 GP surgeries are now connected to the NHS broadband, N3, NHS Connecting for Health has claimed; however,
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19 May 2005

Robot doctor has plans to link to NPfIT

St Mary’s NHS Trust, Paddington, is trialling the use of robot medics that will not only allow doctors to go
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19 May 2005

Choose and Book may get mobile txt reminders

Plans are being drawn up to introduce a national automatic appointment reminder service to cut missed appointments by patients, a
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19 May 2005

Data spine could form part of 2011 Census

Data in the 2011 census could come from patient records held on the National Programme for IT, according to a
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18 May 2005

First PACS installations go live … quietly

The first picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) installed under the National Programme for IT went live recently but details
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18 May 2005

Pharmacy IT award nominations now open

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists have opened nominations for their 2006 annual award for innovative use of information technology within
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18 May 2005

Site lowers blood pressure of procurement officers

An Irish website that aims to painstakingly check and document the medical validations of all the blood-pressure monitoring equipment on
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