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Information prescriptions to be linked to electronic records

The Department of Health is this week expected to set out its vision for information prescriptions that are linked to
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Health bodies could access communication logs

Public bodies, including health authorities, could be able to access information about all personal calls and internet use under proposals
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Patient Opinion mashes up NHS Choices

Patient Opinion has announced a “mash-up” with NHS Choices comments released onto a Cabinet Office website to promote new uses
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Milton Keynes’ CRS caused ‘near melt down’

The deployment of a national programme care records system at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust “developed into an untenable
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Patientline acquired by Hospedia

Patientline UK has announced its decision to enter administration and been acquired by the newly formed Hospedia Ltd, a hospital
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Strategy for greener government IT

Government departments and executive agencies are being asked to take steps to reduce the energy consumption of their IT systems
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South Central chooses McKesson for HR support

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust has selected McKesson Shared Services to support its HR and payroll functions. The deal
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Data Sharing Review has messages for the NHS

Patients who consent to a course of treatment should be presumed to have given “implied consent” to having their data
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NHS Informatics Review says trusts need ‘interim’ systems

NHS trusts are to get support, and in some cases may get national funding, to select and install “interim” systems
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BT and the NHS at 60

The NHS was born 60 years ago. Computers are a more recent invention but technology is about more than computers,
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