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Health connectivity: the global holy grail

SAN FRANCISCO— The National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) may be the envy of many a country for its £6.2
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The impact of the new National Care Record Service (NCRS) on primary care.

Kingsley Manning, Chief Executive of Newchurch Limited, discusses far-reaching effects that the National Care Record Service will have on primary
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EMIS users urged to protest about systems choice

The head of the EMIS National User Group (NUG) has written to all EMIS users calling on them to lobby
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Agfa set to replace GE on PACS in North East and Eastern

Three months after health minister John Hutton announced the award of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) contracts for the
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First QMAS system fully approved in NPfIT pilot

The National Programme for IT have rubber-stamped the first clinical software system for use with the new Quality Management and
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The Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS)

The quality and outcomes framework (QoF) is designed to reward practices for the quality of care offered to their patients
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MRSA reporting to be improved by electronic lab link

Long-standing data quality problems with recorded occurrences of MRSA may be improved by the introduction of electronic incident reporting systems in
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Trial on satellite-assisted ambulance

A trial is about to start on satellite assistance for specially-equipped ambulances which will enable staff to send information, including
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BT Syntegra names Axios Systems as help desk partners

Axios Systems’ assyst software has been selected by BT Syntegra as its help desk and IT service management system for
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Dermatology telemedicine system wins innovation award

An innovative scheme that not only uses electronic referral and PACS but software that plots healing patterns based on archived images
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