Network

24 August 2004

Partnership may make e-health widely available in US

Allscripts, whose strategic partners include HP and Microsoft, has just announced a new link with US-based clinical directory Medem which

13 August 2004

Six new companies brought under NPfIT banner

The National Programme for IT have announced six new “enterprise-wide" agreements between suppliers of software and hardware infrastructure and services,

30 July 2004

Tele-echography robot allows remote patient scans

A university research team has developed a robotic device that allows a doctor to examine a patient in a remote

28 July 2004

US medics may be paid to use electronic patient records

The US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Tommy Thompson, has published a 10-year plan that plans to introduce

27 July 2004

Paperless progress for London GUM clinics

A busy London GUM clinic network has taken the first steps to becoming completely paperless by installing a web browser-based

6 July 2004

Patient and clinical advisory boards to be replaced

A new Care Record Development Board (CRDB) is to be created to help ensure NHS IT helps deliver better patient

1 July 2004

Halligan: “Connection” goal of IT reform

Aidan Halligan, deputy chief medical officer and director general of strategic development for the National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT),

30 June 2004