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9 June 2005

Internet abuse rises among public sector workers

The Audit Commission has published a report into IT abuse in the public sector, revealing that 47% of reported cases
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8 June 2005

Wireless LAN phone can survive hospital environment

A US-based company has developed a ‘rugged’ wireless phone specifically for the UK wireless healthcare market that can survive being
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7 June 2005

PCT issues smartcards with identical PINs

A primary care trust issued smartcards to all its practices which had the same PIN for every user; and furthermore, the number was stuck
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27 May 2005

US GPs sceptical about patient access to records

A survey of attitudes towards patient-accessible electronic patient records in primary care in the US has revealed that GPs, rather
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26 May 2005

Suppliers advised to develop standalone software

Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that it is advising its suppliers to develop standalone versions of their applications, not
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24 May 2005

Patients becoming apprehensive of NHS CRS

Patients are contacting their GPs with concerns about the confidentiality of their data held on GP computer systems as awareness
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24 May 2005

National Scottish NHS IT procurement begins

 The National Health Service for Scotland has begun re-tendering exercise for end-to-end delivery of its principal IT services, in a
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23 May 2005

Minister launches patient ‘guarantee’ on records

The government has published a series of commitments in the form of a guarantee on how nationally held electronic health
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20 May 2005

Patients to get veto on details recorded to spine

Patients may after all be allowed to decide to withhold sensitive information from the central electronic record system, known as
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29 April 2005

Scottish GPs win choice over practice systems

  Scottish GPs will be able to change IT system provider under a new deal announced yesterday. The Scottish Executive
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