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4 February 2002

GPs Get Connected to NHSDirect

Patients registered with a group of practices in South West London have become some of the first to benefit from
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31 January 2002

Electronic Prescriptions Project Schedule Under Threat

One of the key figures behind the development of electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) in the UK has publicly questioned
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30 January 2002

Cardiff to be Oracle Healthcare Customer Advisor

Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust will be a key Customer Advisor in Oracle Corporation’s development of a web-based, patient-centred healthcare
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24 January 2002

Eli Lilly E-mail Lapse Highlight Need for Privacy Policies

Two news items from the US over the past week have highlighted the need for rigorous privacy policies when managing
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21 January 2002

BT to Deliver the Technology for Scotland’s NHS 24

NHS 24, the Scottish version of NHS Direct, has placed a £20.5m contract with BT to provide the telephone communications
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18 January 2002

Government Response to Kennedy Throws Spotlight on Information

A new Office of Information on Health Care Performance is to be set up as part of the government response
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10 January 2002

2002 to be Year E-Health Grows Up

As the dust of the dotcom crash clears, 2002 will be the year that the e-health gets down to business
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4 January 2002

InferMed Partners with BMJ’s Clinical Evidence

The BMJ Publishing Group has teamed up with InferMed, a leading UK provider of clinical software, to assess the feasibility
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1 January 2002

£2M Investment Pledged for Cancer Information Systems

UK Health Minister Yvette Cooper has announced a new £2.3m package to invest in information systems to improve cancer monitoring
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19 December 2001

Smart Specimen Bag Launched

A new version of the humble pathology specimen bag that can integrate test request information with the electronic patient record
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