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IT vital to deliver care closer to home, DH says

Fast and efficient communication between primary and secondary care systems is needed to enable care to be delivered closer to
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PACS – worth the hype?

'Your doctor will never look at you in the same way again' - Joe Fernandez asks one radiologist at St
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Central Manchester upgrade cancer care system

Cancer care staff at the Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust will be able to find all
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NHS Breast Screening Programme consolidates systems

The NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) has replaced four different systems it previously used with a single National Breast Screening
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Arden Cancer Centre extends EMR

Cancer care staff at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust should be able to access electronic medical records
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CMO flags up issues with computerised radiotherapy

Unsafe transfer of data and a lack of training in new computerised radiotherapy systems have been highlighted as potential hidden
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Nottingham says PACS has already saved £1m

The deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems can save trusts over £1m each year, an NHS IT director has
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Decision support could improve bowel cancer diagnosis

Computerised decision support systems could help to improve the process of identifying patients at risk of bowel cancer, researchers argue.
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East Cheshire chooses CliniSys for chemo prescribing

East Cheshire NHS Trust has awarded a chemotherapy prescribing solution contract to CliniSys Oncology. CliniSys will deploy its ChemoCare solution
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