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22 May 2003

Hammersmith & Fulham Integrate Care Electronically

Nationally, health and social services suffer from a lack of integrated IT systems. However, a few local authorities have started
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14 May 2003

Poor IT Placing Patients at Risk Junior Doctors Warn

Improved communications systems that reflect the radically changed working practices in hospitals are vital to guarantee patient safety, a new
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15 April 2003

NHS Direct “Will More than Double” by 2006

NHS Direct is set to more than double in size, handling 16 million calls by 2006. The service is also
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10 April 2003

Air Passenger’s Remote ECG Makes History

The makers of Tempus 2000 remote monitoring equipment and bmi claimed a place in telemedicine and aviation history when a
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1 April 2003

HC 2003 – Pick of the Product and Service News

Healthcare Computing is a traditional launch pad for healthcare IT products and services and the industry did not disappoint this
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5 March 2003

Poor IT Systems Contributing to NHS Waiting List Errors

Poor IT systems have been identified by the Audit Commission as a contributory factor leading to errors in waiting list
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25 February 2003

Fife’s EPR Implemented Early

Siemens Healthcare Services  has announced that Fife Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has successfully gone live with the first stage of
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8 January 2003

Scottish Ambulance Plans to Network Vehicles

Scottish Ambulance plans to put networked computers in all of its emergency vehicles to provide crews with better information en
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27 November 2002

Resource File: Planning for the New Emergencies

The National Audit Office’s recent report on emergency planning found that, while there had been an improvement in the planning
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12 September 2002

PiRiLiS Offers A Life Saving Time Saver

A modern Web-based link has replaced motorbike couriers weaving through busy London traffic to bring prompt expert advice on head
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