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EHI’s industry news roundup 11.01.08

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 11 January 2008. North Yorkshire PCT use digital pen and
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National IT system needed for medical recruitment

In his final report into the Modernising Medical Careers scheme, Sir John Tooke has labelled the online Medical Training Application
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Brown pledges telehealth for 100,000

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has pledged to offer telehealth services to 100,000 people with long term conditions in a speech
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Discharge letter targets will create two-tier care

The NHS Alliance claims government targets for discharge letters will create a two tier system on a critical patient safety
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C+B incentives to go to extended access

GP incentive payments for Choose and Book will be redirected to pay for extended access to GP practices from April
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MPs call for data loss to be a crime

Reckless or repeated breaches of data security should become a criminal offence, the House of Commons Justice Select Committee has
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Cameron says NHS IT must be local

Conservative party leader David Cameron has attacked the NHS IT programme and called for local ownership and innovation. In a
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Four-fifths of doctors say electronic record insecure

Four-fifths of doctors are concerned that current plans for patients’ health records to be available from a central database –
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PACS now used in every English trust, DH says

Digital imaging technology is now being used in every trust in England, the Department of Health has announced. Picture archiving
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Opposition calls for rethink on data storage

The debate over healthcare data security took a political turn as the opposition called on the government to change its
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