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4 August 2005

Wirral’s gateway to care

Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical
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11 July 2005

Philips buys US PACS firm Stentor

  Royal Philips Electronics is to acquire Stentor, a US firm specialising in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) for
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13 June 2005

Software piloted for better cancer data collection

Pilot IT systems have been implemented in two local cancer registries with the intention of improving the quality of the
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15 April 2005

Can routine data detect ‘rogue’ doctors?

Was Rodney Ledward a statistical outlier? Researchers have discovered that the rogue gynaecologist could have been detected through the analysis
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7 April 2005

Shortlist shows cream of UK e-health innovation

With just under two weeks to go before the presentation of the E-Health Innovation Awards 2005 the details of shortlisted
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21 March 2005

Shortlist announced for E-Health Innovation Awards

After an intense round of presentations and judging, the shortlist for the E-Health Innovation Awards 2005 has been agreed. Winners
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15 March 2005

Pathology links system said to be unsafe

The pathology links system is delivering inappropriately coded results in England which make it clinically unsafe because the codes used
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7 March 2005

Survey exposes unsafe security practice

Measures taken by doctors to safeguard confidentiality, especially electronic records, are severely deficient and fuel the concerns of those trusted
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26 January 2005

Medical equipment firm set to acquire IMPAC

Elekta AB, a Swedish-based medical technology firm specialising in cancer treatment, has acquired healthcare IT software house IMPAC Medical Systems, who
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21 January 2005

Over-65s less likely to use internet for health

Less than a third of over 65-year-olds use the internet for health purposes, compared to over half of those aged
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