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19 January 2005

NAO finds Choose and Book running late

Technical problems, delays in delivering upgrades and failure to engage GPs means the roll-out of Choose and Book, the national
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17 January 2005

Ambulance trust gets network upgrade boost

Two Shires Ambulance Trust, which covers Buckhamshire and Northamptonshire, have installed a new virtual private network which manufactures Redstone say
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13 January 2005

Joining forces

David Grigsby of LiquidLogic puts the case for the importance of IT in multi-agency working, and what problems must be
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11 January 2005

UK doctors could sign off American online drug orders

A Canadian online pharmacies’ lobby has announced that many of its members plan on moving their business to the UK
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31 December 2004

Six in ten NHS organisations ‘ready’ for FOI

Preparation for the introduction of the Freedom of Information Act is mixed among NHS communications officers, with 58% saying that
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23 December 2004

More investment in Irish health IT needed, says report

The Information Society Commission of Ireland, an independent advisory board set up to investigate and report on IT matters for
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22 December 2004

ID cards may become healthcare ‘entitlement’ cards

The National Programme for IT has begun initial conversations with the Home Office to examine how the IT infrastructure being
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22 December 2004

Lessons from America

E-Health Insider talks to David Brailer, national co-ordinator for health IT in the US, about how the US and English
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22 December 2004

EMIS sets out its version of ‘fact and fiction’

Primary Care systems supplier EMIS has issued its customers with a briefing about its relationship with the NHS National Programme for
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16 December 2004

Interactive TV part of new NHS information strategy

NHS Direct Interactive, an extension of NHS Direct available over digital TV, has been launched as part of a new
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