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Patient Opinion mashes up NHS Choices

Patient Opinion has announced a “mash-up” with NHS Choices comments released onto a Cabinet Office website to promote new uses
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Choose and Book fails to offer choice

Choose and Book failed to deliver its promise of choice of hospital, time and date of apppintment , a newly-published
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Yorkshire HIS audits software assets electronically

The Health Informatics Service, which provides IT services to 12 healthcare organisations across South West Yorkshire, can now electronically audit
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Geneva boosts telemedicine in Francophone Africa

The decentralised nature of the Swiss confederation has given cantonal governments wide autonomy to spend their money, and Geneva authorities
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NHS managers not committed to informatics

Efforts to harness health informatics to improve patient care have been "impeded" by a basic lack of commitment from NHS
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60 Second Interview: Mik Horswell

In the latest of his 60 second interviews Joe Fernandez puts the questions to Mik Horswell, director of the UK
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Agfa appoints new head of health IT

Belgian giant, Agfa Healthcare, has appointed a new executive vice president to head its healthcare IT division and grow the
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Act paves way for NIGB

The National Information Governance Board is to become a statutory body, replacing the Patient Information Advisory Group, following Royal Assent
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BJHC goes into liquidation

The company responsible for the annual Healthcare Computing exhibition in Harrogate has gone into liquidation, ending an event that has
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LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review

The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it
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