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18 June 2002

iSOFT Acquires Northgate Healthcare Business

Fast growing UK Health IT firm iSOFT has announced that it has agreed to buy rival Northgate Healthcare Business from
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11 June 2002

Fife Acute Hospitals Introduce New Network

Fife Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has begun introducing a new Citrix-based IT network across its four main sites. The network,
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30 May 2002

DH Preparing £5 Billion IT Strategy

This week E-Health Insider provides an advance preview of the yet to be released, yet to be approved, draft implementation
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1 May 2002

Leapfrog Group Extends Reach

The Leapfrog Group, an alliance of US healthcare organisations dedicated to reducing avoidable medical mistakes through introducing technology and best
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4 April 2002

PCTs Told to Freeze IT Procurement Plans

Primary Care Trusts have been told to put their plans for integrated primary and community electronic patient records on hold
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3 April 2002

NHSIA to Develop Infrastructure for Web Services

The NHS Information Authority has announced the launch of a new Health Records Infrastructure programme intended to make it possible
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21 March 2002

Switching on Lightbulb

Early birds who rose in time for an HC 2002 breakfast meeting were rewarded with an account of the preparatory
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14 March 2002

Review Underway to Get EPR ‘Back on Track’

Jon Hoeksma A major review of Electronic Patient Records (EPR) is underway by the Department of Health to get the
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14 March 2002

EPR at the Heart of NHS Redesign

Electronic patient records (EPRs) are good news for NHS organisations and patients, but recent academic research by the NHS Confederation’s
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14 March 2002

Government Urged to be Patient on Patient Records

The Government should accept that the 2005 target for electronic patient records will be missed and not be panicked into
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