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Fraudster sentenced for selling old-for-new IT to NHS

The former managing director of a Yorkshire computer company has been sentenced to 180 hours community service for selling used
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Patients positive on ICRS but worried about security

Patients are positive about the government’s planned Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS), but cautious about security issues and unhappy about
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UK Doctors Still ‘Out of Office’ to Patients Online

Email may be the most powerful new communications tool since the telephone. But despite its clear potential in health, the
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CSW and Oracle Demonstrate Scalability of Case Notes

CSW Health announced this week it had successfully completed initial scalability tests for its Case Notes shared electronic records system. The
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Tablet PC Vs PDA – The Debate Continues (Part 3)

Over the past month E-Health Insider readers have debated the relative merits of PDAs and Tablet PCs in healthcare. This
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Open Source: Tablet PCs Wrong for Doctors – Steve Garrington, CEO Torex Health

Last week hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, shared his experience of testing a Tablet PC on the wards. Steve Garrington, chief
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City Selects Doc@Home for Remote Monitoring Trial

City University, London, is to evaluate Doc@Home, a remote online clinical data gathering and healthcare management service provided by Docobo
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Two PCTs Choose Graphnet for Integrated Electronic Records

Halton primary care trust (PCT) and Warrington PCT are to develop an integrated XML-based repository of real-time patient records that
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Hammersmith & Fulham Integrate Care Electronically

Nationally, health and social services suffer from a lack of integrated IT systems. However, a few local authorities have started
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Electronic Social Care Record To Be Phased

The December 2004 target for implementing full electronic social care records (ESCR) is not achievable and the roll-out is now
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