Standards

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22 August 2006

Call for national standards on remote access

GPs are calling for national standards on remote access to practice computer systems because of concerns that present methods could
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10 August 2006

IBM donates code to open source health project

IBM has donated code to the Eclipse.org foundation’s Open Healthcare Framework (OHF), which works on increasing interoperability of healthcare software
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3 August 2006

Natural progression

Neil Cowles, CEO of Tolven Health, makes the case for widespread adoption of open source software in healthcare.
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2 August 2006

250,000 registered for NHS smartcards

Over a quarter of a million health service staff have now registered for an NHS smartcard, according to Connecting for Health
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21 July 2006

RFID records to be implanted in 280 patients

RFID implant manufacturers VeriChip have announced that 280 patients from the New Jersey area are to have health records chips inserted
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14 July 2006

Four new areas for IT policy named by DH

Four significant new areas for NHS information and IT policy are identified in the Department of Health’s new plans for
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15 June 2006

Granger: bricks of the digital NHS coming together

 The pace of delivery of new IT systems to the hospital sector has been "disappointing", says NHS IT director general
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13 June 2006

Head of NHS Scotland says doctors key to IT projects

Doctors are playing a key role in the development of IT systems in Scotland and will continue to do so
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9 June 2006

Intel creates e-health interoperability alliance

Intel has created a major international new alliance of healthcare hardware and software providers called Continua, in order to increase
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25 May 2006

Crossroads for Kodak

Jon Hoeksma talks to Kevin Hobert, senior vice president at Eastman Kodak Company and president of the Health group, about
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