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New medical students to face computer test

  Many students applying to university to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude
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Award for time-saving medical images system

An online system that has reduced the time taken to make clinical images available to consultants from four weeks to about
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ID cards database could store medical records

Details of patients’ medical records could potentially appear on the ID card database if an amendment to the ID Cards Bill
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Cisco makes new medical connections

Cisco Systems Inc. has announced a series of new applications that are now available as part of its Medical Grade
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New twist in medical records opt-out saga

The government ‘does not envisage any circumstances’ where a patient’s decision to have some or all of their health record
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Robot baby helps medical students train

A Florida-based company is manufacturing interactive baby mannequins containing software that will emulate the vital signs of a three-to-six-month old
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Carry your medical records on a USB drive

A biochemistry professor has developed a USB key chain so that people can carry around their own electronic medical records downloaded
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PA calls for electronic tracking of medical devices

The Patients Association has called for the NHS to introduce modern electronic ‘data capture’ systems to enable individual medical devices
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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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Electronic medical records top priority for US

US healthcare IT executives have named implementing a paperless electronic medical record (EMR) their top priority in the annual Healthcare
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