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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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Words get around

Blogging is one of the success stories of the internet. E-Health Insider looks at NHS staff who blog and also
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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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ID cards may become healthcare ‘entitlement’ cards

The National Programme for IT has begun initial conversations with the Home Office to examine how the IT infrastructure being
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OGC publishes new standard public IT contract terms

The Office of Government Commerce has announced new standard contract terms which are aimed at speeding up the tendering process
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N3 plans unclear after shake up of aggregation boards

The future of the regional bodies charged with aggregating public sector broadband purchasing, including that of the NHS, has been
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Log on for a late night librarian

A project that gives health professionals late-night access to librarians’expertise by using an instant messaging (IM) link between the UK
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Release the pharmacists

Better application of technology could take the administrative burden away from hospital pharmacists, leaving them free to concentrate on patient
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Free HL7 conference will focus on integration

HL7 UK is running a free one day conference on 9 February 2005 for NHS informatics professionals and clinicians who are
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First NPfIT SAP system uses data spine

Software that operates using a working version of the data spine has been installed by Accenture under the NPfIT in
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