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Internet has blown away library walls

The Internet has blown away the walls of libraries as effectively as Semtex, Dr Muir Gray, director of the National
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Meditech wins first Irish customer

Galway Medical Clinic, owned by Blackrock Medical Partners, has licensed the complete health care information system (HCIS) from Medical Technology
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Gershon says NHS national programme is inherently ‘risky’

Peter Gershon, chief executive of the Treasury’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has described the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)
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Wirral Health Informatics Service extends EHR capabilities

  The Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS) has extended the capability of its pilot electronic health record (EHR) system by
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Open Source: IT + GP Contract = Heady Cocktail

Roy Lilley, independent health policy analyst and author of “The New GP Contract – How to Make the Most of
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Leeds trust wins technology award

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has won the BT-sponsored Health Service Journal Award for “Improving Care with e-Technology” with a project
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NHSmail take-up minimal so far

One year on from award of a £90m contract with Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and six months after its launch
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Nhs.uk to provide information for Patient Choice

Patients will be encouraged to use the NHS online service, nhs.uk, to gather information about NHS hospitals when they are
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E-Booking presented as a step towards patient-centred NHS

A new £64.5m national contract for e-booking between GP surgeries and acute hospitals in England was presented by the government
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Missing IT Funds Threaten GP Contract

One of the BMA’s leaders on IT issues has warned that the new GP contract is at risk unless the
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