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InterSystems chosen for Dutch e-health programme

InterSystems Corporation has been selected by CSC Computer Sciences BV to provide its Ensemble integration platform for a national healthcare
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National children’s database gets go-ahead

The government has given the go-ahead for the creation of an electronic information sharing index containing information on all children
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Choose and Book passes 50,000 mark

More than 6,000 appointments a week are now being made through Choose and Book with the total number of bookings
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CfH clinical lead predicts consensus on consent

Connecting for Health and the medical profession will be able to reach a consensus on the consent model for the
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EU hospital software market ‘worth £1bn by 2010’

The European market in hospital administration systems will be worth £1.2bn by 2010, according to research undertaken by consulting company
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Key role for NCRS in dual registration

The British Medical Association (BMA) has given cautious backing to proposals to allow patients to register with two GP practices
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US government awards EHR pilot contracts

The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC,
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Granger says NPfIT in danger of being derailed

The director in charge of the £6.2 billion NHS National Programme for IT has warned that the project is in
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Handwriting rules for controlled drug scripts written off

GPs will no longer have to handwrite prescriptions for controlled drugs as a result of amendments to the Misuse of
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CfH to examine health and social care links

Plans to examine how links between electronic health and social care records could be made to work are to be
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