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iSoft goes live with results reporting in Ireland

iSoft have announced that it is rolling out its iPM results reporting module across all sites in the Bon Secours
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Clinicians warn CRS will damage confidentiality

Concerns about the negative impact that the planned national database of patient records, the NHS Care Record Service national record, will
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Doctors test out RFID system for handovers

Doctors at the Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are testing the use of RFID technology for patient handovers.
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Sealed envelope safety risk raised by BMA

Doctors have raised concerns that Connecting for Health proposals to allow patients to hide some information in sealed envelopes puts
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Tablet tests

How did three E-Health Insider readers get on with new tablet PCs in their work? A GP, a dermatologist and
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Lengthy delivery for NPfIT maternity systems

The delivery of new maternity systems as part of the NHS IT programme has stalled, E-Health Insider has learned. Not
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City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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Honour for health informatics technical director

Technical director of Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS), Pete Marsh has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
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US conference gets a reality check on NPfIT

Former National Programme for IT industry liaison manager, Phil Sissons, delivered a transatlantic reality check this week, exposing some of
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Patient records may only be shared locally, say CfH

Detailed electronic patient records will not be accessible outside the local groups of organisations that created them, in direct contradiction
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