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Welsh NHS IT strategy launched, again

In the week that the NHS in England awarded a tranche of major IT contracts, worth £2.7 billion, Welsh Assembly
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National US health information infrastructure called for

 The influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a new report calling on the US Government to create national data
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E-Health Insider – the first 100 issues

As the E-Health Insider newsletter celebrates the 100th edition, we take the opportunity to look back over highlights of two years
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ID cards on the way for healthcare entitlement

The government published plans published this week making clear that it wants to introduce identity cards which will be used
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Gershon says NHS national programme is inherently ‘risky’

Peter Gershon, chief executive of the Treasury’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has described the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)
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CHI praises NHS Direct

The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) has given a positive assessment of the 24 hour health information and advice line,
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Nhs.uk can take on burden of information requests

Trusts that deliver up-to-date, accurate data to www.nhs.uk will be able increasingly to shed the burden of answering third party
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South Tees NHS Trust buys spinal injuries record system

The North of England Regional Spinal Cord Injuries Centre at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough, part of South Tees
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Proposed NHS agency would oversee ICT

A King’s Fund report has called for the formation of a new NHS body part of whose role would be to
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Making NHS technology more trial friendly

Like the rest of the health sector the pharmaceutical industry has been famously (or infamously) conservative about embracing new technology.
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