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Telehealth ‘to take off by 2012’

Telehealth will take off as a mainstream technology for remote disease and home health monitoring from 2012, a new research
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Cloudy outlook on government ICT

The Cabinet Office has published a ten year strategy for government ICT that emphasises the use of cloud computing and
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BMA wants tech to save boundaries

The introduction of videophones and webcams in GP surgeries would be a better way of improving patient access than scrapping
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CfH gives go-ahead for IE7

NHS Connecting for Health has said organisations still using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 should move to IE7, following security concerns
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Do more, with less

Department of Health policy and informatics guidance lays bare the scale of the challenge facing the NHS as the credit
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One in ten child prescriptions wrong

More than one in ten prescriptions given to children in hospitals contain errors and almost a fifth of drugs are
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Swindells: Don’t compromise NPfIT vision

Prolonged contract renegotiations with local service providers risk compromising the central vision of the National Programme for IT in the
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EHI interview: Matthew Swindells

Jon Hoeksma talks to the new chair of BCS Health about the past and future of the National Programme for
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Broadband fund ‘will boost telehealth’

The government has identified telehealth services as one of the main beneficiaries of its plans to invest £1 billion in
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First clinical director for informatics

The Department of Health has announced that it has appointed Charles Gutteridge as the first national clinical director for informatics.
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