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iSoft warns of ‘significant’ NPfIT delays

British healthcare software developer iSOFT has warned that delays in delivering software to the UK National Health Service would slash
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More focus on research needed in NPfIT, says report

Leading academic medical researchers say that the Care Record Guarantee currently makes commitments that, if strictly interpreted would prevent a
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CSC Alliance told to make switch on PACS/RIS

New suppliers look highly likely to be brought in an effort to sort out the mired Picture Archiving and Communications
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UCLH plays smart with cards

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has become one of the first big hospital trusts in England to
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NHS suffering from broken spine

NHS sites experienced acute spine problems in the week before Christmas, resulting in key systems being unavailable to NHS staff, and
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Cerner and Fujitsu deliver first South implementation

Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has become the first hospital in the South of England to go live with an
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Graphnet says 45 PCTs now using Xtract

Graphnet Health has announced that 45 primary care trusts in England are in the process of implementing its data extraction
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National children’s database gets go-ahead

The government has given the go-ahead for the creation of an electronic information sharing index containing information on all children
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In the vault

E-Health Insider talks to Gwyn Thomas, director of Welsh healthcare IT programme Informing Healthcare, about how his emphasis is on
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N3 connections needed say community pharmacists

Lack of access to smartcards and the N3 network by community pharmacists is jeopardising the roll out of the electronic
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