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Wirral tenders for new patient care system

A trust that pioneered the use of IT in the NHS is tendering for a new patient care information system
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E-booking to miss its appointment

Choose and Book, the programme for providing electronic patient appointment booking, will not deliver a fully featured system across the
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InPS SMS upgrade allows for care service alerts

In Practice Systems (InPS) has announced an extension to its Vision system that will allow general practices not only to
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Words get around

Blogging is one of the success stories of the internet. E-Health Insider looks at NHS staff who blog and also
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Six in ten NHS organisations ‘ready’ for FOI

Preparation for the introduction of the Freedom of Information Act is mixed among NHS communications officers, with 58% saying that
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NPfIT issues rebuttal of EMIS’s claims

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has stated that it is ‘concerned’ about statements made by primary care systems supplier
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ID cards may become healthcare ‘entitlement’ cards

The National Programme for IT has begun initial conversations with the Home Office to examine how the IT infrastructure being
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Lessons from America

E-Health Insider talks to David Brailer, national co-ordinator for health IT in the US, about how the US and English
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EMIS sets out its version of ‘fact and fiction’

Primary Care systems supplier EMIS has issued its customers with a briefing about its relationship with the NHS National Programme for
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Decision support software review planned by NICE

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been asked by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to carry out
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