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29 April 2005

Germany joins hospital RFID pilots

Germany has joined the growing number of countries experimenting with wireless tagging of hospital patients to improve safety and provide easier access
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28 April 2005

Organ donors to be recruited via digital TV

The red button on the digital television remote control is set to become the latest channel for recruiting desperately needed
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27 April 2005

Crunch time

How will the general election affect NHS IT? E-Health Insider takes a comprehensive look at what each party has to
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21 April 2005

E-Health Innovation Awards winners announced

Health technology projects that help diabetic patients, speed up results reporting for X-rays and scans and deliver vital information for
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21 April 2005

Kaiser to end ‘wobbly’ medicine

Doctors working without computerised systems are working in the “operational dark ages”, according to George Halvorson, chief executive officer of
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20 April 2005

‘State of the art’ review of health IT announced

The National Patient Safety Research Programme has issued a call for a systematic review of internationally available research on the
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19 April 2005

Legacy integration in NHS still slow, says survey

A survey undertaken by software company WRQ has found that less than half of UK healthcare IT managers whose trusts
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18 April 2005

NHS Direct software may expand abroad after buyout

The firm that supplies the decision support software which forms the basis of the NHS Direct, NHS Direct Wales and
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14 April 2005

Microsoft in the NHS

Dr Bill Crounse, Microsoft's Global Healthcare Industry Manager, talks to EHI about Microsoft's involvement in the NHS IT programme and
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7 April 2005

Unreliable patients most likely to ask for SMS reminders

Patients most likely to be ‘Did Not Attends’ (DNAs) at outpatient clinics are also the most likely to sign up for text
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