18 December 2008

E-Health Insider’s industry round up 18.12.2008

This month’s E-Health Insider industry round covers system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT
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18 December 2008

Nottingham PCT rolls out IP communications

Nottingham Primary Care trust has rolled out a modern communications network to cover the city centre, county and surrounding districts.
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16 December 2008

Software replaces fax and phone organ allocation

NHS Blood and Transplant is preparing to roll out a new software system to speed up the process of allocating
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15 December 2008

Emergency and continuity planning strengthened

BT has won a contract from the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat and the Communities and Local Government department to
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12 December 2008

Six hundred volunteers test NHSmail

NHS Connecting for Health is planning to start "extended user acceptance testing" of the new NHSmail platform on Monday.
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10 December 2008

Shake up in Informatics Planning

Local health communities have been instructed to move towards “information-led rather than service-led planning” and to create new structures to
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9 December 2008

Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi

NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11,
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3 December 2008

Its name is RiO

The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health outlines the benefits of the RiO electronic care records system to London.
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3 December 2008

IT underpins NHS reform in Queen’s speech

The government is planning to introduce a health bill to Parliament that will require further investment in IT and new
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3 December 2008

Better search: a cure for cyberchondria?

Search engines may need to be redesigned to stop people turning into “cyberchondriacs”, a study by Microsoft Research has suggested.
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