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15 June 2007

EC looks to IT to help support older people

The European Commission has unveiled plans for a new €1bn European Action Plan to research the effectiveness of the use
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14 May 2007

Orion develop document tracking software

Orion Health are building a new document tracking solution for the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to help keep
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11 April 2007

Hewitt launches ‘Choose and Book’ librarians

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has launched ten ‘choice’ library pilots. Librarians in the pilots will be trained to help people
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15 March 2007

Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at
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5 March 2007

Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda

Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information
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29 December 2006

Kodak announces mammography archive partnership

Kodak has announced a partnership with the US-based National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA) to create new solutions enabling hospitals to
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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12 October 2006

Healthcare Commission’s website opens up all NHS data

The Healthcare Commission is today launching a website to give NHS patients and the public access to its entire database
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17 August 2006

IM+T DES participation check advised

Primary care trusts are being advised to contact all GP practices to check if they intend to take part in
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4 August 2006

Complete Microsoft’s survey and help the NSPCC

Microsoft is developing a web portal dedicated to IT professionals working within the NHS. To ensure that they develop a
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