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18 December 2007

2008: the year telecare grows up?

A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.
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18 December 2007

Barking Havering and Redbridge choose Euroking

Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust has chosen EuroKing Miracle to provide a new web-based maternity information system to improve
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17 December 2007

BT deploys Picis theatre system to six London trusts

BT has successfully completed its deployment of Picis theatre systems to six hospital trusts in London under the National Programme
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17 December 2007

Atos Healthcare takes over its first medical centre

Atos Healthcare is to take over its first medical centre in the UK in February 2008. The St Paul’s Way
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14 December 2007

DH telecare demonstrator trials to start work

Small scale trials for the Department of Health’s Whole System Long Term Conditions Demonstrator Programme are to begin in the
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13 December 2007

New e-health strategy planned for Scotland

A new e-health strategy for Scotland in spring 2008 is promised in a national healthcare action plan, Better Health, Better
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13 December 2007

Walsall and Hull begin mass telehealth deployment

Walsall PCT and Hull PCT have begun large-scale deployments of telehealth equipment from Tunstall to monitor people with chronic obstructive
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12 December 2007

Information Centre appoints new chief executive

The Information Centre (IC) for health and social care has appointed Tim Straughan, current acting chief executive, as its chief
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10 December 2007

NHS Fife use Siemens to integrate systems

NHS Fife is extending the scope of its Oasis patient administration system to include community and mental health services.
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5 December 2007

Commission calls for better use of information

High-quality information about patients’ care should be used better to measure how well providers are performing, the Healthcare Commission has
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