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27 April 2005

Crunch time

How will the general election affect NHS IT? E-Health Insider takes a comprehensive look at what each party has to
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25 April 2005

NHS contract delays hit TATA growth

Another commercial player in the National Programme for IT, TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), has reported lower than average financial figures
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25 April 2005

NHSU online learning forums may close

The future of the Contact, Help, Advice and Information Networks (CHAINs), online forums for sharing research, ideas and event announcements,
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22 April 2005

LIGHT spreads from US to Europe

The Leadership in Global Health Technology (LIGHT) Online Resource Centre, a US-based coalition of health information and communications technology advocates, is expanding
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21 April 2005

Kaiser to end ‘wobbly’ medicine

Doctors working without computerised systems are working in the “operational dark ages”, according to George Halvorson, chief executive officer of
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20 April 2005

Delivery delays mount across the national programme

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that there are delays in implementing the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in
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18 April 2005

NHS Direct software may expand abroad after buyout

The firm that supplies the decision support software which forms the basis of the NHS Direct, NHS Direct Wales and
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14 April 2005

Microsoft in the NHS

Dr Bill Crounse, Microsoft's Global Healthcare Industry Manager, talks to EHI about Microsoft's involvement in the NHS IT programme and
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13 April 2005

Carry your medical records on a USB drive

A biochemistry professor has developed a USB key chain so that people can carry around their own electronic medical records downloaded
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11 April 2005

Computer equipment could help MRSA spread

Keyboards and computer equipment installed in hospitals may aid the spread of ‘superbug’ bacteria such as MRSA, a study in
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