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Reid Announces £2.7 billion of NHS IT contracts

Health Secretary John Reid today announced the award of contracts, which he promised would lead to every NHS patient having
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National US health information infrastructure called for

 The influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a new report calling on the US Government to create national data
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E-Health Insider – the first 100 issues

As the E-Health Insider newsletter celebrates the 100th edition, we take the opportunity to look back over highlights of two years
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Analysts speculate on LSP contract awards

A US market analyst report obtained by E-Health Insider predicts that clinical applications vendor Cerner will win two of the Local
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US healthcare IT looks kinda familiar

In a second article on healthcare IT systems in America, Andrew Harrison reports from the 650-bed Lenox Hill Hospital in
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South Tees NHS Trust buys spinal injuries record system

The North of England Regional Spinal Cord Injuries Centre at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough, part of South Tees
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Cerner CEO: contracts are ‘onerous but not outrageous’

With the award of the first Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts due within a month, one of the firms that
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Primary care IT Manhattan style

Andrew Harrison, whose career change took him from computer programming to hospital medicine, continues his occasional series with some notes
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Fears of patient abuse of e-mail not realised

Doctors’ fears that an e-mail consultation service would be abused turned out to be unfounded, the International e-Health Association Conference
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No rational reason to make N3 a closed system

NHS IT director-general Richard Granger says there will be adequate controls on information passing over the new NHS network but
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