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10 September 2007

New evidence for hospital mobile ban

New research in the journal Critical Care has provided fresh evidence that mobile phone signals over short ranges can interfere
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6 September 2007

Malta’s Mater Dei Hospital to get iSoft

Isoft has been appointed as sub-contractor to Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) to provide and support laboratory information systems at
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4 September 2007

Target met for 60,000 new telecare users

Local authorities have achieved their target of enabling more than 60,000 new users to benefit from telecare in the last
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31 August 2007

UCLH deploys 18 week RTT solution

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a new system from LogicaCMG to support compliance with the government’s
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30 August 2007

New system supports care equipment service

Ethitec’s ELMS2 system is being used to help modernise the community care equipment loans service across three West Country primary
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17 August 2007

German smartcard rollout brought forward

In a surprise move, the German health IT agency, Gematik, has accelerated the schedule of the German national smartcard project
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14 August 2007

Malta awards Euros 15.8m health IT contract

The Maltese Government has awarded US Affiliated Computer Services, Inc a seven-year, Euros 15.8m ($21m) contract to provide modern health
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13 August 2007

NHS 24 struggles to cope with rise in calls

NHS 24, Scotland’s national health information phoneline, is struggling to cope with a rise in phone calls from patients. The
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10 August 2007

Government refuses independent review of NPfIT

The government has refused to hold an independent review of the National Programme for IT in their response to the
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10 August 2007

Barriers to telehealth spelt out

Barriers and possible solutions to the implementation of telecare and telehealth have been set out in latest advice from the
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