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29 April 2005

Hospital e-mail filter can weed out drug spam

Hammersmith Hospitals NHS trust has installed a spam e-mail filter which the manufacturers say is sophisticated enough to tell genuine
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13 April 2005

Carry your medical records on a USB drive

A biochemistry professor has developed a USB key chain so that people can carry around their own electronic medical records downloaded
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12 April 2005

Doctors to get say on future of NHS IT

Grassroots doctors are to get the chance to tell the National Programme for IT, now known as NHS Connecting for
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12 April 2005

Doctors to get say on future of NHS IT

Grassroots doctors are to get the chance to tell the National Programme for IT, now known as NHS Connecting for
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5 April 2005

Do no harm

Peter Singleton of Cambridge Health Informatics considers the case of a patient who tried to opt out of electronic recording.
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29 March 2005

Legal issues with GP data transfer mooted at HC2005

GPs who move their electronic patient record data to new systems may have to keep the old ones running concurrently
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15 March 2005

Web-based monitoring system on trial in King’s

Voice Integrated Products have updated their Solo remote lone-worker monitoring system to allow management of mobile staff over the web
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9 March 2005

Single sign-on targeted at UK health organisations

An IT security company which claims successful implementations in US hospitals of its enterprise single-sign on (ESSO) system has set
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8 March 2005

Conservatives call for NHS IT review

Andrew Lansley, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, has announced that a future Conservative government would commission an urgent review
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7 March 2005

Good telecare comes in small packages, argue researchers

Research undertaken by the University of Newcastle has revealed that service-specific telemedicine and videoconferencing systems are of limited value to
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