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Does Dr Robot usher in new era of metal medics?

From automated call-centre systems to car assembly factories, it seems that wherever you look, a robot is waiting to take
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NHS Direct to provide BMJ’s ‘Best Treatments’

Thanks to a deal between the British Medical Journal and Department of Health millions of patients will be able to
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Data spine key to Patient’s Passport, say Tories

Under a Conservative government the NHS Care Record Service would become the key tool enabling the introduction of the proposed
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Granger repeats PACS warning

The head of the NHS’ £5bn IT modernisation programme has again warned suppliers of Picture Archiving and Storage Systems (PACS)
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Gershon says NHS national programme is inherently ‘risky’

Peter Gershon, chief executive of the Treasury’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has described the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)
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Open Source: IT + GP Contract = Heady Cocktail

Roy Lilley, independent health policy analyst and author of “The New GP Contract – How to Make the Most of
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Casualty Plus opens with TrakHealth

To contact Casualty Plus, call 08456 777 999. E-Health Insider is a news organisation and is not connected to Casualty
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Patients positive on ICRS but worried about security

Patients are positive about the government’s planned Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS), but cautious about security issues and unhappy about
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Torex Acquires Australian Supplier of Clinical Trauma Systems

Torex PLC has announced that it is to acquire Australian specialist health IT supplier HAS Solutions Pty Ltd. (HASS), a supplier
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Information Vital to Extending Patient Choice

Health Secretary John Reid has upped the ante on the Government’s patient choice agenda and the electronic appointment booking targets,
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