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iSoft gets ex-Agfa director as COO

IBA Healthcare has appointed the former chief operating officer of Agfa Healthcare, Andrea Fiumicelli, as chief operating officer with responsibility
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Sweden launches national e-health strategy

The Swedish government has launched a new citizen-centred national e-health strategy designed around ensuring the provision of information to where
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Using IT to deliver on free choice

Free choice at referral takes effect this month. Fiona Barr looks at how IT will be used to deliver this
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Dublin’s St James’s links speech and radiology

Ireland’s largest hospital, St James’s Hospital in Dublin, is using Nuance Communication’s PowerScribe dictaphone system to automate the creation of
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Europe-wide project to detect drug reactions

QResearch, the not-for-profit research partnership between EMIS and the University of Nottingham, is supporting a new European-wide initiative, the ALERT
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Europe-wide project to detect drug reactions

A new European-wide initiative, the ALERT project, has received €5m EU funding to detect adverse drug reactions (ADRs) using real-time
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Aintree to go-live with digital dictation

The Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected G2 Speech’s speech recognition technology for a trust-wide implementation in April.
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NPfIT progress so far

Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the
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iB Solutions wins contract extension

iB Solutions, an Irish subsidiary of IBA Health, has won a £22m contract extension with NHS Shared Business Services to host
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QoF cash for quitters

GPs could be paid depending on the number of their patients who stop smoking as part of possible changes to
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