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11 March 2002

Danish Province Blazes Trail on EPR

Most healthcare systems in the industrialised world are struggling to develop or implement different models of electronic patient records, with
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7 March 2002

Global Healthcare Exchange Goes Live at Leeds

Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), the health e-commerce platform established by an alliance of leading international medical device firms, has announced that
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5 March 2002

Fife Signs up for Oasis

Fife Acute Hospitals Trust has awarded a 15-year contract for electronic patient records (EPR) to Siemens Healthcare who will be
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28 January 2002

A.D.A.M Signs Content Deal with Tenet Healthcare

A.D.A.M., Inc, the leading US electronic health content publisher, has signed a content licensing deal with Tenet Healthcare – its
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16 January 2002

Report Says NHS Likely to Miss EPR Targets

A key report published one year on from the NHS IT strategy update ‘Building the Information Core’ warns that almost
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10 January 2002

2002 to be Year E-Health Grows Up

As the dust of the dotcom crash clears, 2002 will be the year that the e-health gets down to business
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10 January 2002

Videophones to Link Deaf, Interpreters and Health Professionals

A new remote sign language interpretation service which uses a network of videophones to provide interpretation services in consultations between
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19 December 2001

IT Needed to Cut Drug Deaths

A new report by the Audit Commission has highlighted the need to invest in IT systems to cut the increasing
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19 November 2001

NHS Completes Alpha Tests of SNOMED Clinical Terms

SNOMED International, a division of the College of American Pathologists, and the NHS Information Authority have announced they have successfully
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31 October 2001

“Millstone of History” Holds Back UK E-Health

The UK health service is still struggling to adopt the information technology and business practices that will drag it out
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