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14 August 2006

CfH looking for PCTs to trial summary record

NHS Connecting for Health is looking for primary care trusts to become early adopters for the NHS Care Records Service
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10 August 2006

Leicestershire PCTs saving approx £2m from clinical IT

Health software supplier Ethitec has calculated that the six primary care trusts in Leicestershire are making efficiency savings worth the
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9 August 2006

Strike action threat over NHS Direct cuts

  Unison and the Royal College of Nursing are warning they may consider strike action after a consultation into staff
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8 August 2006

PACS passes halfway stage in London and South

The programme to deploy Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) in London and the South of England has passed the
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3 August 2006

Natural progression

Neil Cowles, CEO of Tolven Health, makes the case for widespread adoption of open source software in healthcare.
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2 August 2006

Patients give feedback on health info sites

  Patients suffering from long-term conditions and their carers feel they benefit from regularly updated, information-rich support websites but think
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31 July 2006

Microsoft acquires health data aggregation package

 Microsoft have announced the acquisition of a healthcare data aggregation software package, Azyxxi, and an alliance with the US-based health
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28 July 2006

Electronic staff record now biggest NHS payroll provider

The NHS Electronic Staff Record is now installed in over 150 sites across England after being implemented of the largest
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25 July 2006

Caution urged in interpreting ‘outlier’ data

Ninety consultant teams in England are statistical outliers by the standards used in the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry, according to a data
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25 July 2006

Number cruncher

Fiona Barr talks to Professor Sir Brian Jarman of Imperial College's Dr Foster Unit about using hospital data to uncover
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