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EMIS pilots GP booking through digital TV

EMIS has joined up with a South Yorkshire local government digital TV portal to allow patients to book GP appointments
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Keeping an eye on ID

Identifying patients to access their records can be a big problem for A&E staff and paramedics. So why not use
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Great Ormond Street selects Tomcat for cardiac system

Belfast-based Tomcat Clinical Systems, the supplier of specialist Cardiac Information Systems has signed a contract with London’s Great Ormond Street
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Haematology software wins primary care award

Software that automatically works out correct dosages of anti-coagulation drugs for patients has won the prestigious John Perry Prize from
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The future of digital imaging

The government recently announced that all acute trusts in England will move to PACS within the next three years. This
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Personal health record-keeping gets popular in US

Two in five adults in the US keep their own personal and family health records, with 13% of them keeping
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Web-based dermatology system installed in Kent

Medway NHS Trust, in Kent, have installed a new internet-based teledermatology system that allows doctors in remote locations to make
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First QMAS system fully approved in NPfIT pilot

The National Programme for IT have rubber-stamped the first clinical software system for use with the new Quality Management and
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Virtual surgery on real patients helps training

Virtual reality training and testing for surgeons that is actually based on scans of real patients may soon become commonplace thanks to an EU
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Blair: Choose and Book historic development

Tony Blair has defended the development of the NHS’s Choose and Book programme, the new name for the new NHS
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