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Accenture winds down acute hospital trust work

Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North-east and East of England, is winding down
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Road to repair

On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, US correspondent Neil Versel reports from Louisiana on the use of EHRs in rebuilding
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Talking pill bottles read out their own labels

Pharmacies in Northern California have started to stock talking prescription bottles which aim to help elderly or partially sighted patients
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Sage moves into healthcare IT market

The UK’s largest technology company and supplier of accounting software, Sage, has announced the purchase of Florida-based Emdeon Practice Services
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E-mail reveals outage disrupted patient care

One week on from the computer failure that left 80 trusts in the North-west and West Midlands without access to
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Cardiff implements city-wide PACS from Agfa

Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust has announced it has gone live with an Agfa PACS solution that allows it to
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UK version of PubMed Central launched

A major initiative that aims to promote the free transfer of ideas via an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research
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CSC failure leaves 80 trusts without IT systems

A technical failure at an NHS Connecting for Health data centre on Sunday has left 80 NHS trusts across the North
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Electronic staff record now biggest NHS payroll provider

The NHS Electronic Staff Record is now installed in over 150 sites across England after being implemented of the largest
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Web-based pharmacy first at Tameside

Tameside General Hospital in Lancashire has become the first to implement a new web-based pharmacy solution from Ascribe. The new
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