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Interim flu line for 100,000 cases a day

The Department of Health’s interim flu line service is expected to be operational by next week, as the government predicts
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Tories may offer private record stores

Patients may be given the option to transfer their health records to Google or Microsoft personal health record platforms under
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Docs call for clinical review of NPfIT

The British Medical Association's annual representative meeting has called for a clinically led review of the National Programme for IT
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MPs back technology for patient safety

MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve
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FASS up to 100,000 telecare deployments

The biggest monitoring centre for telecare alarms in mainland Europe has announced its 100,000th telecare deployment. The Fundacion Andaluza de
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Scrap big government IT: think tank

A right-wing think tank has called for more open standards and open source development in IT, arguing this could lead
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Tower Hamlets drops RiO for EMIS Web

A London primary care trust has opted out of NHS Connecting for Health plans to install the community and child health
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Kent rolls out System C’s IGFlow

System C has started to roll out a new information governance product across Kent, with six environments “ready to go.”
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Brown plans for ‘entitlements’

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has outlined plans to give public service users new "entitlements", while promising a tougher NHS performance
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SOCITM calls for IT stimulus

A leading consortium has called for a £1 billion IT stimulus package from central government to overhaul IT services in
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