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21 April 2009

ICW works on New York e-prescriptions

German e-health firm InterComponentWare has partnered with the New York E-health Collaborative and Surescripts, the operator of the largest US
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16 April 2009

Tories would ‘end monopoly’ of NHS Choices

The Conservative Party would remove NHS Choices from Department of Health control and force it to compete on the same
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9 April 2009

The NHS Number

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Julie Tindale, national clinical lead for the NHS Number Programme, discusses
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7 April 2009

NHS launches cancer toolkit

The NHS has formally launched a Cancer Commissioning Toolkit to help local NHS managers to develop better cancer-fighting strategies based
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6 April 2009

GE and Intel commit €184m to telecare research

General Electric and Intel have joined forces to develop hi-tech health care products that will allow patients to be treated
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1 April 2009

Orange and Sorin partner on cardiac care

Orange has partnered with medical device company Sorin Group to develop remote monitoring for patients with implanted cardiac rhythm management
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1 April 2009

Patients to rate GPs’ appearance online

A new online ranking site is set to be launched offering a fresh twist on ‘rate-my-doc’ services by allowing patients
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30 March 2009

College highlights poor PACS image sharing

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor,
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26 March 2009

Database mooted for healthcare professionals

The Department of Health is to investigate whether a national database should be set up to hold information on the
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23 March 2009

Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database

A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal
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