25 January 2010

Southampton rapped by ICO

Southampton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be rapped for breaching the Data Protection Act. Chief
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14 January 2010

ICO spells out £500,000 penalty plans

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued guidance on how it will use its new powers to impose penalties of up
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13 January 2010

Hitachi completes London portal

Hitachi Consulting United Kingdom has announced that it has completed the delivery of a portal to support commissioning in London.
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30 December 2009

EHI’s top stories: 2009

Nobody will ever be able to say that the NHS went un-warned about the tough financial times ahead. One of
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24 December 2009

SRC and Bluewire e-discharge summary

SRC and Bluewire Technologies have announced a partnership to provide healthcare organisations with web-based clinical information solutions. The first result
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17 December 2009

Microsoft joins COCIR

Microsoft has joined the European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR). The non-profit trade association,
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16 December 2009

EHRs deliver soft benefits for hard cash

Electronic health record and e-prescribing systems deliver benefits such as safer and more convenient services, but only over long periods
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7 December 2009

Burnham defends NPfIT but cuts £600m

Health secretary Andy Burnham has launched a spirited defence of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, but £600m
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30 November 2009

Hospital IT ‘does not cut costs’

Computerising hospitals delivers a small improvement in quality but does not cut costs, according to a study published in the
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10 November 2009

Cohen: 25 trusts to get Lorenzo in 2010

The head of ISoft has said 25 NHS trusts will go live with the company’s ‘strategic’ electronic patient record, Lorenzo,
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