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Shake up in Informatics Planning

Local health communities have been instructed to move towards “information-led rather than service-led planning” and to create new structures to
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Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi

NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11,
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Keogh promotes use of the NHS Number

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has written to all NHS chief executives and medical directors to promote wider use of the
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Its name is RiO

The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health outlines the benefits of the RiO electronic care records system to London.
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IT underpins NHS reform in Queen’s speech

The government is planning to introduce a health bill to Parliament that will require further investment in IT and new
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Better search: a cure for cyberchondria?

Search engines may need to be redesigned to stop people turning into “cyberchondriacs”, a study by Microsoft Research has suggested.
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Just champion

Sue Rushbrook won the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year award for her work on a voice and data network
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Westminster accelerates access to applications

Westminster Primary Care Trust has solved lengthy log in times for community staff by implementing a Cisco Wide Area Application
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NHS Tayside and Lanarkshire guilty of data breaches

Two Scottish health boards have been found in breach of data protection laws for leaving patients’ personal information on paper
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Royal Free says Cerner creates duplicate x-ray risk

Patients at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust are potentially at risk of having duplicate x-rays ordered and receiving double
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