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7 December 2004

ComMedica finalises £33m PACS deal with CSC

ComMedica, the healthcare IT specialist originally spun out from Imperial College, London, has signed a £33m contract with CSC to
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6 December 2004

Release the pharmacists

Better application of technology could take the administrative burden away from hospital pharmacists, leaving them free to concentrate on patient
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2 December 2004

First NPfIT SAP system uses data spine

Software that operates using a working version of the data spine has been installed by Accenture under the NPfIT in
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30 November 2004

Speak for yourself

New developments in speech recognition technology could make it a useful tool for clinicians, says Marcel Wassink of Philips.
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25 November 2004

GPC says key questions unresolved on Choose and Book

The General Practitioner Committee (GPC) of the British Medical Association has written to GPs advising them that it has serious
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16 November 2004

New QOF software to hide data, but not for all GPs

NPfIT has developed software that automatically anonymises GP electronic patient records for audit by primary care organisations under the Quality
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16 November 2004

NHS CRS supplier wins top 50 growth award

Ardentia, who are supplying the data reporting software to BT Syntegra for implementation of the NHS Care Records Service, have
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12 November 2004

Cost is main problem in implementing US EHR

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has warned that funding and encouragement of early adoption are a few
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2 November 2004

Large scale MiSys EPR goes live in Saudi

Saudi Arabia’s National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), the healthcare facility for the Saudi Arabian military police, has gone live with
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1 November 2004

Open source software could save NHS money

The Office of Government Commerce has made recommendations that public procurement of software should consider open source solutions, citing, amongst
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