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9 November 2004

EMIS pilots GP booking through digital TV

EMIS has joined up with a South Yorkshire local government digital TV portal to allow patients to book GP appointments
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3 November 2004

Microsoft signs new software deal with NPfIT

Health minister John Hutton has announced a three-year software licensing deal with Microsoft, claiming savings for the NHS of up
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1 November 2004

Open source software could save NHS money

The Office of Government Commerce has made recommendations that public procurement of software should consider open source solutions, citing, amongst
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27 October 2004

Keeping an eye on ID

Identifying patients to access their records can be a big problem for A&E staff and paramedics. So why not use
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25 October 2004

New information authority seeks chief exec

The new Health and Social Care Information Centre, which is due to take over the information management responsibilities of the
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22 October 2004

Counter fraud staff to gain right to access NHS records

Health Minister, Lord Warner today unveiled new powers that will provide NHS counter fraud staff with the power to demand
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21 October 2004

A few billion between friends?

After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check
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17 October 2004

Survey finds IT consultation inadequate or non-existent

A new survey of doctors’ views of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) shows 92% of medics questioned felt that
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15 October 2004

Life outside NPfIT: Wales

In the first part of a series, E-Health Insider looks at the developments in healthcare IT in Wales, under the
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11 October 2004

Patient experience website breaks mental health taboo

Dipex, a charity that runs a number of support websites that contains personal testimonies from people who have suffered from
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