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Computer therapy to help patients back to work

  Ultrasis’s Beating the Blues, a computerised cognitive behavourial therapy software package designed to offer drug-free treatment to patients with
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Welsh GP surgery offers video podcasts

A rural general practice in Wales has started offering video podcasts for its patients covering a variety of subjects, starting
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Tablet tests

How did three E-Health Insider readers get on with new tablet PCs in their work? A GP, a dermatologist and
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Anti-fraud software extended to all NHS acute trusts

A pilot scheme that detected nearly £1m of duplicate and fraudulent payments by the public sector has been extended to
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Scotland chooses Anite for social care integration

Public sector IT provider Anite and the Scottish Executive have signed a national contract that aims to deliver inter-agency access
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Press gang

Have long-running allegations of media bias against the National Programme for IT any basis in fact? IT journalist Michael Cross
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Unison condemns offshore medical transcription

NHS trusts that outsource the transcription of medical notes to South Africa, the Philippines and India received a sharp rebuke
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Germany’s team

The World Cup is not Frankfurt's only major event this summer. Phillipp Grätzel reports from ITeG, the German healthcare IT
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Too many problems with C+B, says Meldrum

Too many delays and problems have undermined the Choose and Book scheme, according to the leader of the UK’s GPs.
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Patientline blames losses on ward closures

Patientline has announced yearly losses of £24.7m before tax, which the company has blamed on ward closures and the recent
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