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30 March 2009

College highlights poor PACS image sharing

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor,
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26 March 2009

McKesson set for UK hospital return

McKesson, the number two supplier of NHS patient administration systems, is weighing a return to the English hospital market -
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25 March 2009

Panasonic launches new Mobile Clinical Assistant

Panasonic has launched the latest version of its Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged tablet-style wireless handheld computer specifically designed for
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25 March 2009

Vascular pods from Telehealth Solutions

Telehealth Solutions has developed a series of ‘pods’ or touch-screen devices that it says can be used to support the national vascular
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24 March 2009

Personal view: Dr Bhupinder Mangat

Doctors can’t dismiss the power of the internet to enhance patient feedback, says Dr Bhupinder Mangat, a GP in Hounslow.
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20 March 2009

NICE to take charge of QoF

The Department of Health has announced that it is to go ahead with its plans to put the National Institute
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20 March 2009

PACS group demands action on NHS Number

Why isn’t it compulsory to use the NHS Number as the primary identifier for patients in England, just as the
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19 March 2009

IT vital to pharmacy progress

Use of the NHS Care Records Service by community pharmacists will be an essential part of the reform agenda for
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17 March 2009

Scottish LMCs demand action on IT choice

Scottish GPs have strongly criticised the delay in procuring a choice of GP IT systems and called for funding for
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16 March 2009

Helix Health links up with Quicksilva

Irish health IT system supplier Helix Health has announced that it has linked up with Quicksilva to achieve compliance with
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