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5 April 2005

Paper records only opt-out available to patients

The government’s policy allowing patients to opt out of the NHS Care Records Service is based on the decision that
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1 April 2005

New Information Centre launched

The start of the new NHS financial year sees another round of musical chairs with the abolition of the old
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23 March 2005

Visiting partner

E-Health Insider speaks to Joseph Ternullo, assistant director of Partners HealthCare in the US, about why telemedicine could be the
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23 March 2005

Hutton departure wounded NPfIT, says researcher

Many difficulties suffered by the National Programme for IT can be traced back to when Professor Peter Hutton resigned as
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22 March 2005

NPfIT to jettison its name…and some suppliers

The National Programme for IT is to change its name to Connecting for Health, NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced
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10 March 2005

UCLH goes live

UCLH is the first to go live with Carecast from IDX; what can other trusts learn from the experience? E-Health
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8 March 2005

No single opt-out on medical records database

Patients will be unable to make a single request for their records not to be held on the NHS Care
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7 March 2005

Good telecare comes in small packages, argue researchers

Research undertaken by the University of Newcastle has revealed that service-specific telemedicine and videoconferencing systems are of limited value to
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3 March 2005

IT input for nurses

E-Health Insider speaks to Sharon Levy from the RCN about what steps NPfIT needs to take to engage with nurses,
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3 March 2005

Patient records on spine to be accessed via PDA

Oracle, who are providing infrastructure for the NPfIT for the NHS data spine, have signed a partnership deal with Medify
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