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  Social care clients may access records online

  Local authorities in England have been issued with a guarantee to follow in handling social care clients' data, following a similar 2005 document for health records
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  How sensors will become home helpers

  Suppliers are working on fitting patients' homes with monitoring devices, allowing them to stay there for longer, finds Danny Bradbury

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• Scotland puts care information for elderly online

  The Scottish Government will spend £500,000 annually on a national online and telephone information provider on care services for older people
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  Freeing health's data

  Politicians are trying to open access to government data, but this may expose problems with the accuracy of NHS information, reports Michael Cross

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  Let's have more connecting for health

  The NHS National Programme for IT's core strength is infrastructure. It should turn its attention to mobile and wireless connectivity, argues SA Mathieson

• Buying Solutions seeks telecare framework deal

  The Treasury's buying agency is setting up a contract for assistive technology worth up to £300m

• County and PCT collaborate on telecare deal

  The county council and primary care trust for West Sussex have joined forces in awarding a contract for telecare services

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  NHS told to exploit business data analysis

  Health organisations should borrow information techniques from retailing, publishing, finance and telecoms, according to the NHS Information Centre

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  Kent and Medway thins its IT

  A mental health and social care trust with 3,000 computers on 100 sites expects to save money with thin client technology

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  Paper records: too many dinosaurs

  Old attitudes are a brake on efforts to take health and social care into the high tech age, according to speakers at a recent conference, reports Gill Hitchcock

• Northern Ireland pilots care record system

  Two of Northern Ireland's five health and social care trusts are to share information using a web based portal

• Tories pledge to expand telecare use

  The Conservatives would require PCTs and local authorities to work together on public health, including more use of remote technology

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