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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13 April 2005

Hutton defends premium rate patient calls

Health minister John Hutton has defended the use of premium rate bedside telephones in hospitals, calling them "a vital direct
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12 April 2005

NI GPs fear raid on computer money

GPs in Northern Ireland say money earmarked for primary care IT has been subject to huge delays and fear the
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12 April 2005

Doctors to get say on future of NHS IT

Grassroots doctors are to get the chance to tell the National Programme for IT, now known as NHS Connecting for
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12 April 2005

Doctors to get say on future of NHS IT

Grassroots doctors are to get the chance to tell the National Programme for IT, now known as NHS Connecting for
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11 April 2005

Results may vary

Geoff Bick, director of product development at data analysis software firm CHKS, shows how wide variations in hospitals' approach to
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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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11 April 2005

European health IT market to double by 2010

A new report has predicted that the existing fragmented European Healthcare IT industry, with different vendors control different niche segments,
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11 April 2005

‘Connect with GPs’ call for IT modernisers

A GP magazine has called on Connecting for Health (formerly the National Programme for IT) to connect with its readers
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8 April 2005

NHS coping with FOI so far

A new survey indicates that most NHS organisations have so far only received a limited number of Freedom of Information
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