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Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact

NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact,
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Academics call for NPfIT technical assessment

A group of 23 computer science academics from around the UK have written an open letter calling for an “independent
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PHCSG urges ‘extreme caution’ on QoF data use

White paper proposals to use Quality and Outcomes Framework data to make commissioning decisions should only be followed with extreme
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Persian health informatics experts sought

Visitors to the British Journal of Healthcare Computing website were in for a surprise over the weekend.  A link to next
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iSoft to preview Lorenzo Primary Care at HC2006

iSoft has announced that it will be giving a preview of its new primary care product Lorenzo at this year’s
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BCS announces speaker line-up for HC2006

The British Computer Society has announced details of its speaker line-up for this year’s HC2006 health informatics conference at Harrogate,
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ chief calls for flexibility in NPfIT

The case for introducing more flexibility into the National Programme for IT was set out this week by the chief
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OpenEHR Foundation launches international standard

An open-source community founded in University College London has produced the first blueprint of an international electronic record standard that
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HC2006 to run NHS basics course for new IT staff

  The annual Healthcare Computing conference (HC2006) in Harrogate is to feature for the first time a series of workshops
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Nursing engagement ‘could become a risk’

Communication with nurses affected by new IT implementations is an issue and will become a risk without appropriate action, IT
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