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1 April 2009

iSoft wins South American deals

ISoft has won two small contracts in South America, signing its first contract in Honduras and its fourth contract in
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1 April 2009

Patients to rate GPs’ appearance online

A new online ranking site is set to be launched offering a fresh twist on ‘rate-my-doc’ services by allowing patients
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27 March 2009

Insider View: Michael Cross

The Database Report had some great points to make. Pity they were hidden by its errors, says Michael Cross.
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27 March 2009

Trust loads C+B referrals manually

An NHS acute trust has been using staff to manually upload paper referrals to boost its Choose and Book performance
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27 March 2009

Work stops again on ContactPoint

The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been suspended after local authority staff discovered loopholes in the system
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26 March 2009

McKesson set for UK hospital return

McKesson, the number two supplier of NHS patient administration systems, is weighing a return to the English hospital market -
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26 March 2009

Over here

Is Cerner Millennium over big, over corporate and over hard to deploy? Or is it a great system that just
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25 March 2009

Vascular pods from Telehealth Solutions

Telehealth Solutions has developed a series of ‘pods’ or touch-screen devices that it says can be used to support the national vascular
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24 March 2009

Med-e-Tel to focus on spreading telemedicine

The first Med-e-Tel telemedicine and e-health conference to be held since the European Commission’s Telemedicine Communication will take place in Luxembourg
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23 March 2009

Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database

A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal
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