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Cancer centre chooses new radiation imaging software

The Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff, Wales is set to deploy a new Image Guided Radiation Therapy system called Elekta
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Accreditation win for Barts and London service desk

Barts and The London NHS Trust has become the first hospital trust in England to win Connecting for Health accreditation
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DH embraces wireless safety technologies

A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by
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Initiate first to achieve new HL7 compliance level

Initiate Systems, a specialist in master data management solutions has announced it has become the only vendor to have achieved
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New e-qualification launched for teen cancer care

Coventry University claimed a first today with the launch of what it describes as a “global virtual classroom created to
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Information problems highlighted in complaints review

A quarter of second-stage complaints in the English NHS related to information, according to the Healthcare Commission’s report on 16,000
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Granger promises summary care record pilots by Easter

Connecting for Health’s chief executive, Richard Granger, has revealed that the first pilots of the national summary care record project
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Patients to rate care received using new NHS website

The government is to set up a new website to allow patients to publish and share reviews of care recived from GPs
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SNOMED negotiations miss deadline – but continue

Talks to negotiate a new International Standards Development Organisation (SDO) for the clinical terminology, SNOMED CT, missed their first deadline
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Knowledge is key

John Coulthard, Microsoft UK Healthcare Director, plots the links between NHS IT reform and patient involvement.
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