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19 December 2007

US group calls for national patient IDs

America’s National Alliance for Health Information Technology has called for a national voluntary system of unique patient identification numbers to
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19 December 2007

CSW named SME of the year

John Chelsom recieves the award (right) Oxford-based health software firm CSW has been named ‘SME Organisation of the Year’ at
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18 December 2007

Ospedale di Lecco hospital group gets Orbis EPR

Italy’s, Ospedale di Lecco hospital group has gone live with the elements of Orbis electronic patient record supplied by Agfa
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14 December 2007

DH telecare demonstrator trials to start work

Small scale trials for the Department of Health’s Whole System Long Term Conditions Demonstrator Programme are to begin in the
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12 December 2007

German industry group publishes telemedicine standards

Leading German electronic association the VDE has published a new set of standards for telemedicine to spur the development of
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12 December 2007

NHS Direct launches foundation trust consultation

NHS Direct has launched a 16-week public consultation on its plans for the future, prior to applying to become an
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11 December 2007

Medway pilots business intelligence from McKesson

Senior staff at Medway NHS Trust are piloting McKesson’s Horizon Business Insight solution in order to extract performance information at
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10 December 2007

Philips to buy US medical alarm firm

Royal Philips Electronics is to acquire US-based Emergin, a provider of software allowing transmission of medical alarm signals throughout hospitals.
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29 November 2007

NHS Direct on a mission to explain

Matt Tee has been CEO of NHS Direct for the past four months, he told us of his plans for
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28 November 2007

Children’s database delayed to review security

The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full
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