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23 February 2005

Privacy key for US electronic health records

US health information technology interests have expressed great concern about guarding the privacy of patient data in building a National
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21 February 2005

Interoperability centre stage in Dallas

Interoperability was the operative word among the nearly 22,000 health IT professionals at the 2005 Healthcare Information and Management Systems
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15 February 2005

Converge and win

Convergence between medical devices and IT systems is an obvious area for adding value in healthcare. Where do we look
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26 January 2005

Medical equipment firm set to acquire IMPAC

Elekta AB, a Swedish-based medical technology firm specialising in cancer treatment, has acquired healthcare IT software house IMPAC Medical Systems, who
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20 January 2005

Standards stimulate health IT market, say analysts

Government legislation on healthcare IT is encouraging growth and innovation in the Europe, with the National Programme for IT and
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18 January 2005

MHRA to let patients report side-effects online

The DH have implemented changes to the way that adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are reported and publicised, including allowing patients
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13 January 2005

Autism care charity installs document security

A regional charitable trust that provides residential care and education for people in the south-west of England with autism and
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11 January 2005

UK doctors could sign off American online drug orders

A Canadian online pharmacies’ lobby has announced that many of its members plan on moving their business to the UK
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24 December 2004

Health and Social Care chief talks about year ahead

Bob Allen, interim chief executive of the new Information Centre for Health and Social Care, has spoken to E-Health Insider
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23 December 2004

More investment in Irish health IT needed, says report

The Information Society Commission of Ireland, an independent advisory board set up to investigate and report on IT matters for
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