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28 March 2008

New-look SearchMedica launched

SearchMedica, the medical search engine controlled by medical professionals, has been re-launched. The new version of the site features a
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28 March 2008

Philips buys Tomcat Systems

Dutch IT giant Royal Philips Electronics has announced it will acquire Tomcat Systems Ltd, a Northern Ireland-based supplier of cardiac
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27 March 2008

CfH says much done, much yet to come

Gordon Hextall, CfH chief, says the NHS IT programme too often gets a negative press when in reality it has
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27 March 2008

NPfIT progress so far

Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the
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27 March 2008

Centre for robotic surgery opened in London

Robotic assistant in action. A centre for robotic surgery has been created at Imperial College London with the aid of the
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27 March 2008

iB Solutions wins contract extension

iB Solutions, an Irish subsidiary of IBA Health, has won a £22m contract extension with NHS Shared Business Services to host
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27 March 2008

Humana launches commissioning simulator tool

Gloucestershire PCT pilots the Commissioning Simulator A new computer-based simulation programme has been launched by Humana Europe, which replicates the
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26 March 2008

e-Health without frontier conference details issued

Details of the European Union-backed ‘e-Health without frontiers’ conference to be held in Slovenia, 6-7 May, have been belatedly been
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26 March 2008

Finland awards national patient archive contract

The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA) has selected EMC to build a new centralised national patient record archive to
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26 March 2008

Swindells to open Healthcare Computing 2008

The Department of Health’s acting chief information officer, Matthew Swindells, has been confirmed as the opening speaker at next month’s
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