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9 September 2004

Carrots, sticks and the NPfIT

E-Health Insider talks to the National Programme for IT's chief operations officer, Gordon Hextall about progress on Choose and Book
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8 September 2004

Plymouth moves to IP telephony

NHS organisations in Plymouth are beginning the roll-out of one of the largest Internet Protocol (IP)-based telephone implementations yet seen
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6 September 2004

Electronic decision support for US veterans

The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to introduce a new computer system at all its 158 medical centres
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2 September 2004

EMIS users urged to protest about systems choice

The head of the EMIS National User Group (NUG) has written to all EMIS users calling on them to lobby
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1 September 2004

Voxar provides Bournemouth with 3D PACS view

Edinburgh-based picture archiving and communication system (PACS) software specialist Voxar, has won a contract to supply the Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s
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1 September 2004

E-prescribing benefits flow for Liverpool hospital

Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust has announced the completion of e-prescribing in all but one of its in-patient clinical areas. 
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31 August 2004

NAO to investigate National Programme for IT

In an unusual move the £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is to be investigated by the National Audit
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26 August 2004

The productivity guessing game

Introducing new IT systems should improve productivity - but how will the NHS know? Healthcare commentator, Roy Lilley, doubts whether
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24 August 2004

Partnership may make e-health widely available in US

Allscripts, whose strategic partners include HP and Microsoft, has just announced a new link with US-based clinical directory Medem which
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19 August 2004

Agfa set to replace GE on PACS in North East and Eastern

Three months after health minister John Hutton announced the award of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) contracts for the
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