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Medicare to give away EPR software

Medicare, the largest US Federal payer of medical care, has announced that it is to help speed up the adoption
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Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’

The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used
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IPPR calls for electronic health record education

  The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called for the introduction of IT training for socially excluded sections
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London project raises questions for Choose and Book

Patients offered a choice of hospital are more interested in hospital reputation than length of waiting time, according to a
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Call to publish Gateway reviews of IT projects

There is a ‘strong case’ for Gateway reviews of public sector IT-enabled projects to be published, the high powered House
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QOF publication due despite GP concerns

Publication of individual practice results for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is likely to go ahead in England, Wales
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Calls for clarity in spirited BMA confidentiality debate

Doctors queued up to speak on the confidentiality issues raised by centralised electronic records in a lively open debate at the
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E-health and the EU

The UK's presidency of the EU promises to be a significant one for e-health, Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Choose and Book a ‘fiasco’, claims BMA chair

The chairman of the British Medical Association has criticised the government’s choice agenda and dubbed Choose and Book a “fiasco”
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Knowledge base for non-NHS audience launched

  The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has launched a public version of its Clinical and Health
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