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30 November 2005

London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS

Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient
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22 November 2005

Study shows ROI on mobile technology in NHS

A study jointly commissioned by George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and NHS Connecting for Health into the impact of mobile
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2 November 2005

Making NP fit

Access to centralised records as promised by NPfIT will force a redesign of the way information is handled in the
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27 October 2005

Preventing errors in phone consultations

A reminder to doctors to beware of the pitfalls of using the telephone to communicate with patients has come from
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19 October 2005

IMS offers Choose and Book solution

IMS Maxims has announced the immediate availability of its Integrated Choose And Book (ICAB) system which enables NHS and independent
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26 September 2005

iSoft in £10.6m deal to buy Spain’s Novasoft

iSoft the UK based healthcare solutions specialist, has bought leading Spanish healthcare IT provider, Novasoft Sanidad, in an agreement structured
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20 September 2005

Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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8 September 2005

London trusts go for IP telephony

Matrix Communications has won two large-scale contracts worth around £1m to provide new Mitel IP telephony (IPT) solutions to four
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18 August 2005

Over 1,000 new NHS IT systems deployed

Connecting for Health (CfH), the Department of Health’s IT agency, has said that just over 1,000 system deployments had been made in the
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5 August 2005

Improve communication on NPfIT, say researchers

Unrealistic and shifting timetables, lack of consultation and communication with NPfIT managers, and lack of perceived short term benefits have
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