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11 January 2007

College bows out of SNOMED development

The College of American Pathologists plans to relinquish control of its subsidiary, SNOMED International. SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine
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4 January 2007

A returned exile

Peter Ellis, former CEO and IT pioneer at one of Canada's largest hospitals, explains why he is alarmed at the
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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18 December 2006

East Surrey goes live with new maternity system

East Surrey Hospital has gone live with the first implementation of a new maternity information system called Eclipse MIS. The
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15 December 2006

BCS calls for complete overhaul of NHS IT project

A new report from the British Computer Society has called for a fundamental rethink of the NHS IT programme, including
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12 December 2006

Electronic toolkit to be an asset in stroke care

A new electronic toolkit which aims to cut the number of strokes and provide better services for those who do
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8 December 2006

Existing ICT underused, Royal Society finds

A working group that set out to look at future technology in healthcare information and communications technology (ICT) has found that
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9 November 2006

SNOMED set 31 December deadline for new SDO

Plans to create a SNOMED CT Standards Development Organisation by the end of the year have taken a step forward
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2 November 2006

Scotland mandates online patient data dictionary

A new clinical standards dictionary has been set up by NHS Scotland’s National Clinical Dataset Development Programme in an effort
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27 October 2006

HL7 conference calls for wider interoperability

Standards drive innovation, catalyse industry growth and create opportunities for many companies in the industry, the HL7 UK conference heard
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