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1 May 2007

Bristol switches on to online learning

Caroline Plaice, knowledge services manager at North Bristol NHS Trust, outlines how staff are beginning to benefit from a Managed

30 April 2007

EMIS launches Medication Monitoring software

EMIS have developed a new software system which will help to monitor patients who have been prescribed medication with potentially

16 April 2007

Patient safety tops IT priorities in CIO poll

Implementing information technology to reduce medical errors and promote patient safety remains the top priority for healthcare chief information officers

12 April 2007

Atos Origin’s £257m DH diagnostics contract suspended

A £257m contract for diagnostic services in North-west and South-west England awarded to Atos Origin last December has been suspended

10 April 2007

Vital signs system monitors patients electronically

A new hand-held computer system called VitalPAC, which allows staff to input patients’ vital signs electronically from the bedside, has

4 April 2007

Hewitt apologises for junior doctor recruitment crisis

The health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, has apologised to junior doctor applicants after the problems experienced by the online system used

3 April 2007

PACS roll-out milestone hit in London and the South

All NHS hospital trusts across London and the South of England have now received systems to enable them to capture

2 April 2007

Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England

The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP

2 April 2007

GP records play key role in most popular paper

A database of anonymised GP records was the source for the most popular research paper of 2005 published by the

29 March 2007

E-discharge summaries needed, says GPs

GPs have called for better uptake of electronic discharge summaries to overcome the severe delays and quality issues that many

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