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21 December 2007

Ā£16.45m renewal contract for IB Solutions

A ten-year £16.45m managed service contract to host Oracle financials and procurement applications for a consortium of 56 NHS bodies
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20 December 2007

2007 in review

As the year draws to a close E-Health Insider casts an eye over the health IT developments that made the
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18 December 2007

2008: the year telecare grows up?

A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.
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18 December 2007

Barking Havering and Redbridge choose Euroking

Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust has chosen EuroKing Miracle to provide a new web-based maternity information system to improve
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5 December 2007

Commission calls for better use of information

High-quality information about patients’ care should be used better to measure how well providers are performing, the Healthcare Commission has
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28 November 2007

Children’s database delayed to review security

The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full
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27 November 2007

Main NPfIT contractors paid Ā£1.2bn last year

Despite continued delays in many areas of the National Programme for IT,Connecting for Health paid its main contractors over Ā£1.5bn
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26 November 2007

Security clampdown on NSTS batch deliveries

A clampdown on deliveries of unencrypted data sent by regular mail services has been announced by the NHS Strategic Tracing
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21 November 2007

Single info governance board plans unveiled

Full details of the cost and role of the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care were
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20 November 2007

Survey shows waning support for NPfIT

Waning enthusiasm from doctors for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is recorded in a Medix survey of medical opinion
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