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Patient information site rivals NHS Direct Online

Patient information website patient.co.uk has claimed that it is now as popular as NHS Direct Online, with just under 1.2m visitors received
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Major ministerial reshuffle for health

John Hutton, the health minister whose responsibilities included NHS IT, has been promoted in the post-election reshuffle. He enters the
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David Kwo resigns as London RID

David Kwo, who was suspended from his post as Connecting for Health’s regional implementation director (RID) for London on 15
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NHSU online learning forums may close

The future of the Contact, Help, Advice and Information Networks (CHAINs), online forums for sharing research, ideas and event announcements,
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Kaiser to end ‘wobbly’ medicine

Doctors working without computerised systems are working in the “operational dark ages”, according to George Halvorson, chief executive officer of
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Microsoft in the NHS

Dr Bill Crounse, Microsoft's Global Healthcare Industry Manager, talks to EHI about Microsoft's involvement in the NHS IT programme and
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Ex-NHSIA chief comes home again to Wales

Gwyn Thomas, former chief executive of the now-defunct NHS Information Authority, is the new Director of the NHS Wales Informing
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Carry your medical records on a USB drive

A biochemistry professor has developed a USB key chain so that people can carry around their own electronic medical records downloaded
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Computer equipment could help MRSA spread

Keyboards and computer equipment installed in hospitals may aid the spread of ‘superbug’ bacteria such as MRSA, a study in
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European health IT market to double by 2010

A new report has predicted that the existing fragmented European Healthcare IT industry, with different vendors control different niche segments,
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