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30 November 2005

London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS

Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient
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30 November 2005

PACS roll-out stalls in NW and West Midlands

The roll-out programme for PACS in the North West and West Midlands of England by CSC looks in danger of
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29 November 2005

NHS domain block causing bounced patient e-mail

E-mails to nhs.uk addresses from patients may be being blocked due to the inclusion of nhs.uk on a site used
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28 November 2005

Newcastle opts for ChemoCare

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust has signed up for a chemotherapy prescribing solution which will operate across three sites and provide
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15 November 2005

US government awards EHR pilot contracts

The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC,
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14 November 2005

Granger says NPfIT in danger of being derailed

The director in charge of the £6.2 billion NHS National Programme for IT has warned that the project is in
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9 November 2005

Cameraphones help dieters keep track of meals

Dieters in the US and Canada are photographing their food with camera phones and sending them to dieticians, thanks to
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9 November 2005

iSoft named North West business of the year

Manchester-based supplier of clinical software, iSoft, has been named North West business of the year by the Manchester Evening News,
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7 November 2005

Lessons for NPfIT from ‘wild ride’ to US failure

A study of the ‘wild ride’ towards a failed implementation of a new electronic medical record system found a ‘transient
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4 November 2005

Online infection control site unveiled by UCLH

An online directory of infectious diseases has been unveiled by University College London Hospital (UCLH) and the Whittington and North Middlesex Hospitals
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