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18 July 2006

Warning on good practice in data sharing

The Information Commissioner (IC) has issued a warning to the government and other public bodies to share data properly or
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14 July 2006

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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14 July 2006

Deaf signing shows videoconferencing’s potential

A service that offers deaf patients and their clinicians quick access to a sign language interpreter via a video link shows
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14 July 2006

Four new areas for IT policy named by DH

Four significant new areas for NHS information and IT policy are identified in the Department of Health’s new plans for
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12 July 2006

Birmingham Children’s loses sight of appointments

Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust has become the latest trust to experience problems after Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) installed new
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10 July 2006

North Staffs announces ‘big bang’ implementation

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has started its trust-wide ‘big bang’ implementation of a new iSoft patient administration system,
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6 July 2006

iSoft begins EPR roll-out at Derby

iSoft has announced that the initial roll-out of its iCM electronic patient record (EPR) system at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation
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6 July 2006

Come together

As mobile devices start taking on more than one function, what implications will there be for healthcare? Colin Jervis of
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5 July 2006

Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children to install Vocera

Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children is to install the Vocera hands-free wireless voice communication system. The new system, which
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30 June 2006

EHR opt-out debate “doesn’t matter to patients”

The question of whether patients opt into having their electronic records shared or have to specifically request to opt out
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