17 July 2009

Data added to clinical indicators

The Department of Health and The NHS Information Centre have published the data for more than 200 indicators against which
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17 July 2009

Malaga Uni develops surgical robot

Laparoscopic surgery has been performed for the first time using a robotic assistant at the Hospital Universitario Virgen de la
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16 July 2009

Newcastle prepares for go-live

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is preparing to go-live with the electronic patient record system for which it
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16 July 2009

NI extends iSoft contract for €9.8m

Northern Ireland has extended its iSoft contracts for long-term support and maintenance services of its health information systems in nine
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15 July 2009

Five trusts breach DPA

The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued further warnings to NHS bodies about the importance of protecting data, after revealing that
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15 July 2009

Rand report focuses on RFID in health

A major new research report commissioned by the European Commission has detailed the opportunities for, and barriers to, the deployment
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15 July 2009

Anderson: ‘prepare for more viruses’

A well-known IT security expert has told E-health Insider that hospitals need to accept that viruses exist and has urged
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15 July 2009

Spain joins SNOMED body

Spain has become the eleventh country to join the international healthcare standards development organisation (IHTSDO), the organisation aimed at spreading
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14 July 2009

Siemens wins Barts network contract

Barts and The London NHS Trust has awarded a four-year, multi million-pound contract to Siemens Enterprise Communications to implement a
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6 July 2009

Mid Yorks digitises 1.9m records

Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust has begun converting more than 1.9m patient records into digital files as part of a
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