22 March 2004

Award for iSOFT SingHealth EMR implementation

Singapore Health Services (SingHealth), the largest healthcare provider in Singapore has received a prestigious award for best of IT to
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18 March 2004

Uncertainty shrouds EMIS negotiations

Almost two months after GP software market leader EMIS first publicly stated that the company would not sign contracts with Local
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18 March 2004

Data spine key to Patient’s Passport, say Tories

Under a Conservative government the NHS Care Record Service would become the key tool enabling the introduction of the proposed
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18 March 2004

CHI delivers “must do better” verdict on information use

Acute trusts need to improve the collection and use of good quality information, according to the Commission for Health Improvement
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17 March 2004

Government says open source not a ‘hype bubble’

The Office of the e-Envoy has issued an updated consultation paper on the use of open source software (OSS) by
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16 March 2004

Agency due to lead NHS IT change management scrapped

The Government is to scrap the NHS Modernisation Agency (MA), the agency charged with delivering the change management programme that
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15 March 2004

Sheffield Children’s Trust prepares for NCRS

Sheffield Children’s NHS Trust has chosen a Stalis CareXML enterprise-wide patient data respository as the foundation for integrating its patient-based
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11 March 2004

Statutory registration in prospect for health informatics

Statutory registration of healthcare informatics staff in four years is the target for a new voluntary regulator launched this week.
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10 March 2004

Prepare for mandatory use of NHS Number, trusts told

Trusts in England have been told to start as soon as possible to move towards using the NHS Number as
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9 March 2004

National programme says NHSmail was ‘unacceptable’

The National Programme for IT has said that the decision to terminate the £90 million contract with EDS for a
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