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22 January 2007

BMJ says it will have to charge for BestTreatments

The BMJ Group says the Department of Health’s withdrawl of funding from its award-winning website BestTreatments means it will now probably have to
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18 January 2007

Patient records excluded from new data sharing bill

New legislation to allow data sharing between the public and private sectors were unveiled by the government yesterday, but NHS
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16 January 2007

Minister announces new telecare guidance on way

  The government is to issue new guidance for social care commissioners to help make telecare more mainstream, it was
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16 January 2007

Ireland’s Systems Solutions merges with Medicom

Systems Solutions, a provider of software systems to the Irish pharmacy sector has announced it is to merge with Medicom,
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15 January 2007

Proposals for wider data sharing to be unveiled

The government is to make it easier for different department systems to share information about individuals currently held on separate
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15 January 2007

NHS is major IT investor in public sector

The government spent more that £12billion on IT across the public sector in 2005/06, with the NHS and Connecting for
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8 January 2007

Lord Hunt returns as NHS IT minister

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath is back at the Department of Health and will be taking ministerial responsibility again for
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4 January 2007

A returned exile

Peter Ellis, former CEO and IT pioneer at one of Canada's largest hospitals, explains why he is alarmed at the
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20 December 2006

Two-thirds in Wales access health information online

A survey commissioned by Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has revealed that almost two-thirds of people in Wales
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19 December 2006

Patients to be able to veto spine uploads

Health minister Lord Warner yesterday announced a significant u-turn in government policy on patient’s details being automatically loaded onto the
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