Security

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Can you keep a secret?

Subtle changes in the way patient confidentiality in electronic health records is handled slipped out last week. EHI Primary Care
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Autism care charity installs document security

A regional charitable trust that provides residential care and education for people in the south-west of England with autism and
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Securing NHS Care Records

Duncan McNeil, chief technology officer for the National Programme for IT, explains how new NHS Smartcards will be used to
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Choose and Book leaders answer their critics

Leaders of the Choose and Book programme this week attempted to answer concerns raised by GP representatives about the security
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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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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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BMS UK takes over healthcare biometrics firm

Healthcare IT vendor Business Management Solutions UK has taken over ISL, from which it purchased biometric authentication software and hardware for
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Mixed results as Contact splutters into life

E-Health Insider has had a bumper response from NHS staff sharing their experiences of the first week of Contact, the new
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London Oncology Clinic selects IMPAC Medical Systems

The London Oncology Clinic, a private provider on oncology services, has selected IMPAC Medical Systems  to provide it with chemotherapy
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Hospital clerk jailed for culling patient data

A hospital worker from Northern Ireland who collected information from the patient records of politicians, senior military and police personnel,
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