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10 December 2009

Whatā€™s going on, Darling?

NPfIT was going to be scrapped. Then it wasnā€™t. Sarah Bruce reports on Pre-Budget Report chaos.
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7 December 2009

Brown streamlines government with IT

Gordon Brown has outlined plans to encourage much greater use of information, online services and text messaging in the NHS
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30 November 2009

Dr Foster names safety underperformers

The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient
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26 November 2009

HSS completes EuroKing buy-out

EuroKing Miracle has confirmed that is has been acquired by Healthcare Software Systems (HSS). The company faced liquidation by HM Revenue
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17 November 2009

Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011

The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that
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12 November 2009

Going live

1,300 people, 80 exhibitors, four conference streams, the sheep key-rings, the chocolate fountain. EHI reports on E-Health Insider Live ā€™09.
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6 November 2009

Information quality mark launched

The Information Standard accreditation scheme has been launched at the King’s Fund. The Department of Health initiative will award a quality
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5 November 2009

Itā€™s cold out there

Malcolm Newbury of IHE UK says itā€™s time to break out of Groundhog Day and find a new way of
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5 November 2009

Third of trusts miss wristband deadline

The National Patient Safety Agency has admitted that almost a third of NHS acute trusts in England and Wales have failed to
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29 October 2009

Toolkit to nail interoperability – Jones

The new NHS interoperability toolkit has the potential to drive down the cost of interoperability and innovation, according to the
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