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8 April 2005

Accenture feels the squeeze on NHS contracts

Accenture, the international consulting firm that holds two local service provider (LSPs) contracts for the NHS, has reported lower margins
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7 April 2005

Online support helps patients with rare illness

Internet support forums for people with rare diseases can be extremely beneficial, especially if they have just been diagnosed, a
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31 March 2005

CliniSys acquires Torex Lab Systems

Diagnostic and specialist clinical software solutions provider, CliniSys, today announced that it has acquired Torex Laboratory Systems (TLS) the company
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31 March 2005

NHS Shared Business Services on launchpad

Xansa has announced that it is to formally launch NHS Shared Business Services, its joint venture with the Department of
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30 March 2005

Study shows doctors use PDAs more for admin than care

Doctors in the US are not generally making use of PDAs to improve patient care, and those that do use
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29 March 2005

Shedding light

E-Health Insider looks at documents released by NPfIT under FOI and describes how you can also make a request.
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23 March 2005

Visiting partner

E-Health Insider speaks to Joseph Ternullo, assistant director of Partners HealthCare in the US, about why telemedicine could be the
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23 March 2005

NPfIT’s new name already taken

The announcement that the NHS National Programme for IT is to become Connecting for Health appears to have immediately run
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15 March 2005

PA calls for electronic tracking of medical devices

The Patients Association has called for the NHS to introduce modern electronic ‘data capture’ systems to enable individual medical devices
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14 March 2005

EMRs reduce visits for primary and specialist care

The introduction of electronic medical records (EMRs) reduced visits to primary and specialist outpatient care in two regions covered by the
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