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15 March 2010

EU ministers sign eHealth declaration

Coverage from World of Health IT 2010, Barcelona European Union health ministers have signed a declaration that recognises the strategic
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11 March 2010

Scots MPs criticise slow progress on IT

The Scottish Parliament's Health and Sport Committee has criticised the Scottish Government for the slow roll-out of its clinical portal
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10 March 2010

Want to quit? There’s an app for that

The Department of Health has launched an iPhone application to help people stop smoking. The application was launched today by
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10 March 2010

EHE interview: Harald Deutsch

Sarah Bruce talks to CSC’s vice president, EMEA, healthcare, about the future of healthcare IT on both sides of the
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10 March 2010

BMA says ‘suspend SCR roll-out’

The British Medical Association has written to the government calling for the roll-out of the Summary Care Record to be
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5 March 2010

EMIS confirms AIM flotation

Health IT system supplier EMIS has announced that it expects its shares to be trading on the London Stock Exchange’s
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2 March 2010

O’Brien claims govt may lock-in NPfIT

Conservative health spokesman Stephen O’Brien has accused the government of trying to tie the hands of an incoming Tory government
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1 March 2010

HIMSS opens with gold rush in prospect

An 25,000-strong army of healthcare IT professionals has descended on Atlanta for the HIMSS 2010 conference and exhibition expecting a
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1 March 2010

BMA says SCR roll-out ‘too hasty’

The BMA has criticised the roll-out of the Summary Care Record programme, claiming patients do not have enough information and
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25 February 2010

Keogh to lead work on new stats for NHS

The government has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in
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