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CfH lead says standards important but not enough

Defining standards is important but it is not sufficient, a leading Connecting for Health officer told delegates at a conference
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Upgrades to core software slowed NHS Direct

An upgrade to the NHS Direct triage software led to problems resulting in increases in call lengths of up to
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Dublin’s St James’s links speech and radiology

Ireland’s largest hospital, St James’s Hospital in Dublin, is using Nuance Communication’s PowerScribe dictaphone system to automate the creation of
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CfH says much done, much yet to come

Gordon Hextall, CfH chief, says the NHS IT programme too often gets a negative press when in reality it has
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NPfIT progress so far

Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the
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Centre for robotic surgery opened in London

Robotic assistant in action. A centre for robotic surgery has been created at Imperial College London with the aid of the
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e-Health without frontier conference details issued

Details of the European Union-backed ‘e-Health without frontiers’ conference to be held in Slovenia, 6-7 May, have been belatedly been
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Imperial integration

The UK's first Academic Health Science Centre is generating a significant systems integration challenge for the merged institution’s IT professionals.
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Scotland to pilot new sexual health system

A new Scottish national sexual health IT system, known as NaSH, will be piloted in the next few weeks in
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CETIR deploys Agfa PACS in Catalonia

The CETIR radiology group, one of the two main private providers of radiological services in Catalonia, Spain, is to deploy
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