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E-prescribing round table report

The National Programme for IT in the NHS and hospital boards should put e-prescribing at the top of their agendas
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Doctors and pharmacists join smartcard critics

With its rollout coming closer, critics of the German smartcard project are once again becoming louder. Three regional political representative
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Individual Health Record extended to acute care

Informing Healthcare has announced that the Individual Health Record has been used for the first time in acute care. Staff
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JAC to distribute robotic medicines cabinets

  JAC Computer Services Ltd (JAC) has become the exclusive UK distributor of robotic medicines cabinets designed to improve medicines
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ICW selected for US telehealth programme

German e-health specialist InterComponentWare (ICW) has been selected by US health network Coventry Health Care to provide the infrastructure for
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Whiston uses whiteboards for training

Medical students and staff at Whiston Hospital are being taught core clinical skills using interactive whiteboards. The hospital, part of
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‘IT has generated substantial savings for us’

Philipp Grätzel speaks to Uwe Pöttgen, head of corporate department IT at Asklepios, about the 'Asklepios Future Hospital Programme'.
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Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals

University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a
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GPs shape the future of health IT

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs,
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Gieseke and Devrient wins smartcard contract

Electronic Healthcare Card Munich-based identity technology specialist Giesecke & Devrient has won a contract from the German health insurer Kaufmännische
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