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Don’t pay for additional N3 bandwidth, PCTs told

Primary care trusts (PCTs) have been told that current N3 broadband links provide enough bandwidth to run all Connecting for
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SNOMED negotiations miss deadline – but continue

Talks to negotiate a new International Standards Development Organisation (SDO) for the clinical terminology, SNOMED CT, missed their first deadline
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BMJ says it will have to charge for BestTreatments

The BMJ Group says the Department of Health’s withdrawl of funding from its award-winning website BestTreatments means it will now probably have to
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Siemens take over leading German systems provider

Siemens Medical Solutions have acquired the German health information systems developers Gesellschaft für Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen mbH (GSD).
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals to deploy PACS

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have announced that they are launching a £13m project to deploy PACS in its
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Minister announces new telecare guidance on way

  The government is to issue new guidance for social care commissioners to help make telecare more mainstream, it was
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Ireland’s Systems Solutions merges with Medicom

Systems Solutions, a provider of software systems to the Irish pharmacy sector has announced it is to merge with Medicom,
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Wider engagement with pharmacists could yield benefits

Wider engagement with community pharmacists which could deliver a range of new services with the appropriate IT support and access
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Speaking frankly

Intellect members discuss the financial questions raised by NPfIT at a round table.
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SHAs must plan local IT expenditure, guidance says

The Department of Health has published guidance to strategic health authorities on how to produce plans for local IT expenditure from
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