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Birmingham uses OMNI-Lab for baby tests

Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is using a subset of OMNI-Lab to manage the bloodspot screening tests taken from
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Twitter and YouTube to combat Swine Flu

The US Centres for Disease Control is to use a range of online social media tools, including Twitter, YouTube, to
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Cerner go-live at Newcastle delayed

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has decided to take additional time before going live with a big bang implementation of
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Bupa carries out SWIFT migration

UK health insurer, Bupa, has completed a large scale migration of data as part of the consolidation of legacy applications
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Bradford plans Lorenzo expansion

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is due to take Lorenzo live in a ward environment in the middle of
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US releases $1.2 billion for EMRs

The US government is releasing $1.2 billion (€800m) to help healthcare providers implement and use electronic medical records. The grants
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Personal view: Tim Benson

Standards guru Tim Benson argues that understanding health interoperability, HL7 and SNOMED CT will become increasingly important in this taster
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Digital maps show flu pick-up gaps

NHS emergency planners in Bristol and Avon are using advanced digital mapping to develop their swine flu pandemic response strategy.
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Xerox to manage Worcestershire records

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has started a £12.8m record management project to transfer more than 1.2m medical records online
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iSoft bullish on annual results

Australian health IT firm iSoft says that it expects to implement its first Lorenzo 1.9 site during the course of
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