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Surgical data reduces mortality

A study has revealed that since surgeons started publishing data on outcomes for people undergoing heart operations, mortality rates have
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Trust rejects £1m Lorenzo incentive

East Cheshire NHS Trust has opted to shift its existing patient administration system to a new hardware platform despite being
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Carestream win Dutch data archiving deal

Carestream Health has won an e-Health Managed Services (eMS) agreement to provide remote storage of diagnostic images for the Maasstad Ziekenhuis Hospital
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Davis: Google hits back

Google’s global privacy counsel has hit back at former shadow home secretary David Davis for an article criticising the Conservative
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Imperial breaches the DPA

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS organisation to be required to sign an undertaking not to
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BlackBerry transplant system trialled

Liver surgeons and transplant coordinators at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust have started using BlackBerrys to help to determine
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Davis: privatising records ‘dangerous’

Former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial
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FluSurvey surveillance website launched

A website that will provide up-to-date information and surveillance on swine flu has been launched by the London School of
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Stop the clot

Dr Maureen Baker CBE, clinical director for patient safety at NHS Connecting for Health, talks about developing a risk assessment
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Scotland awards device security contract

NHS National Services Scotland has awarded a £1m contract to Lumension to nationally enforce security policies governing the storage of
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