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7 January 2008

Royal Philips Electronics has agreed to acquire US-based clinical IT firm Visicu for around €290m, to expand its patient monitoring

7 January 2008

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has become the eighth site in the South of England to go-live with the

4 January 2008

Over one million people contacted NHS Direct in England over the 11 day Christmas and New Year holidays, breaking all

3 January 2008

German industrial giant, the Bosch Group, has acquired US telehealth specialist and innovator Health Hero Network Inc., which focuses on

3 January 2008

EHI Editor Jon Hoeksma, provides a look back at 2007 from the perspective of the NHS IT programme’s local service

2 January 2008

Self care supported by information and advice from professionals is a major theme in Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s New Year

31 December 2007

The BMJ Group has bought OnExamination.com, a specialist website dealing with online exam preparation for doctors, medical students and other

29 December 2007

Social scientists at the University of York are to investigate public attitudes on how medical information on hundreds of thousands

27 December 2007

The European Commission is considering tabling legislation next year that would change the rules on the information that drug companies

24 December 2007

The debate over healthcare data security took a political turn as the opposition called on the government to change its

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