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28 February 2008

The bigger picture at HIMSS

Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.
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25 February 2008

Children’s database work resumes after review

Ministers are to press ahead with plans to develop the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, despite an independent security review identifying
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20 February 2008

Six years since Blair seminar began NPfIT

Six years ago this week Tony Blair chaired a No 10 Seminar on NHS IT, that paved the way to
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19 February 2008

Health informatics one of the ‘grand challenges’

Advancing health informatics has been listed as one of the 21st century’s greatest challenges by a panel of leading engineers
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11 February 2008

Six firms shortlisted for £80m NHS Choices contract

Six companies have reportedly been shortlisted to run the Department of Health’s NHS Choices website, following an OJEU tender process,
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5 February 2008

Conservative MP opts-out of SCR

A Conservative MP has opted out of the Summary Care Record and is encouraging his constituents to do the same.
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1 February 2008

Medics sceptical about government data security

Nine out of ten doctors have no confidence in the government’s ability to safeguard patient data online, a poll by
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30 January 2008

Building Europe’s e-health market

The European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General ICT for Health team speaks to E-Health Europe about the lead market
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30 January 2008

Choose and Book to list private hospitals

The next version of Choose and Book software will list all available hospitals, regardless of whether they are public or
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29 January 2008

Practices use of 0844 numbers to be investigated

The government is to gather evidence about the use of 0844 telephone numbers by GP practices and its impact on
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