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Nurses in the dark on IT developments, survey reveals

UK nurses are generally positive about NHS IT developments, but over three quarters have received little or no information about
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Data spine key to Patient’s Passport, say Tories

Under a Conservative government the NHS Care Record Service would become the key tool enabling the introduction of the proposed
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Government says open source not a ‘hype bubble’

The Office of the e-Envoy has issued an updated consultation paper on the use of open source software (OSS) by
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Agency due to lead NHS IT change management scrapped

The Government is to scrap the NHS Modernisation Agency (MA), the agency charged with delivering the change management programme that
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Parliamentary briefing paper sets out challenges for NPfIT

A new parliamentary briefing paper on the National Programme for IT has highlighted stakeholder involvement, communications, "imposing change on a
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Hunt on for public sector IT tsar

The hunt is on for a person to take on to find the candidate to fill the “most influential role
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Dawn of globalisation in health IT, Granger tells HIMSS

ORLANDO, Florida – The NHS National Programme for Information Technology is drawing interest on both sides of the Atlantic, a
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US states push for e-health networks

Political leaders in Florida and Kentucky have announced similar plans to create state-wide e-health networks, to enable family physicians, hospitals,
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Gershon advocates better IT use to free up skilled staff

A leaked report advocating radical measures to improve government efficiency points to better use of IT and skill mix as
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E-honours in the New Year list

Leading figures in e-government and the Internet are recognised in today’s New Year Honours.   At the top of the
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