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Cerner go-live at Newcastle delayed

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has decided to take additional time before going live with a big bang implementation of
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Bupa carries out SWIFT migration

UK health insurer, Bupa, has completed a large scale migration of data as part of the consolidation of legacy applications
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Dashboards available from October

The roll out of clinical intelligence systems – or clinical dashboards – could be partly supported by central funding.  
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Bradford plans Lorenzo expansion

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is due to take Lorenzo live in a ward environment in the middle of
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Audit Commission warns on poor records

The Audit Commission has called on organisations at all levels of the NHS to improve the standard of record keeping
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Personal view: Tim Benson

Standards guru Tim Benson argues that understanding health interoperability, HL7 and SNOMED CT will become increasingly important in this taster
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Digital maps show flu pick-up gaps

NHS emergency planners in Bristol and Avon are using advanced digital mapping to develop their swine flu pandemic response strategy.
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Thousands of Lab samples ‘mislabelled’

Tens of thousands of clinical samples are being wrongly labelled when they arrived at NHS pathology laboratories, an investigation has
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Robot report calls for greater debate

The Royal Academy of Engineering has published a report on the social, legal and ethical issues of using robots in
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Personal view: Mary Hawking

Mary Hawking, a GP and critical friend of NHS IT, asks: are your records fit for sharing?
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