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Open Source: IT + GP Contract = Heady Cocktail

Roy Lilley, independent health policy analyst and author of “The New GP Contract – How to Make the Most of
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Making NHS technology more trial friendly

Like the rest of the health sector the pharmaceutical industry has been famously (or infamously) conservative about embracing new technology.
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Major new lab systems wins for Sysmed and iSOFT

Two major new laboratory systems contracts were announced this week which will bring modernised facilities to Leeds Teaching Hospitals and
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Hull-York students learn with virtual patients

Students at the Hull-York Medical School have become the first in England to incorporate the use of online virtual patients
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NPfIT launches patient and clinician advisory groups

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has launched two new consultative groups to help shape the future direction of the
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Reader Comment: ‘NPfIT Viewed from Scotland’

The following ‘reader comment’ was supplied in response to recent E-Health Insider reports on the development of the National Programme for
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UK Doctors Still ‘Out of Office’ to Patients Online

Email may be the most powerful new communications tool since the telephone. But despite its clear potential in health, the
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US Medical Insurance Group to Subsidise PDA Software

A US physician liability insurance organisation, MedAmerica Mutual Risk Retention Group, is to offer its members a subsidy towards the
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Yahoo Targets Online Diabetes Monitoring

Two major US Internet portals have begun to provide remote monitoring services to have their condition monitored online for a
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InterSystems Demonstrates Scalability of Primary Care Systems

Database systems supplier InterSystems, has announced that it has carried out successful scalability tests of its CACHÉ database product in
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