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Community pharmacists to get NHSmail

Community pharmacists in England are to get access to NHSmail for the first time from the beginning of 2008. Until
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Vote for your Healthcare ICT Champion

The search is on for your Healthcare ICT Champion of 2007. This special category of the BT e-Health Insider Awards
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Wanless warns NPfIT risking NHS modernisation

In a review of NHS modernisation efforts Sir Derek Wanless has criticised the slow progress of the National Programme for
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Microsoft launches CUI internationally

Microsoft has today launched its health Common User Interface (CUI), designed to help improve patient safety and the efficiency of
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Swansea planning remedies for ESR

Some staff at the Swansea NHS Trust have had payments affected by problems with the Electronic Staff Record, eleven months
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NICE looks at pathways to electronic guidance

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is looking at new ways of providing its guidance electronically –
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New system supports care equipment service

Ethitec’s ELMS2 system is being used to help modernise the community care equipment loans service across three West Country primary
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Pharmacists urged to check NHS Choices data

Pharmacy representatives have advised pharmacists to check that information about their pharmacies on the NHS Choices website is correct or
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Some NPfIT PAS systems barely used

A number of Connecting for Health funded patient administration systems installed in primary care and community trusts, are only being
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Robotic future of patient care

As technology advances, robotics is the new revolutionary in healthcare. Kevin Fickenscher, MD and chief medical officer at Perot Systems
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