10 July 2006

Lewisham PCT chooses iPlato for SMS reminders

A primary care trust is hoping to reduce missed GP practice appointments by 25% in a year with the aid
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10 July 2006

iSoft’s financial troubles mount

Troubled UK health IT software firm iSoft was plunged into further financial crisis on Friday after it announced it had
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10 July 2006

North Staffs announces ‘big bang’ implementation

University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has started its trust-wide ‘big bang’ implementation of a new iSoft patient administration system,
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7 July 2006

Welsh GP surgery offers video podcasts

A rural general practice in Wales has started offering video podcasts for its patients covering a variety of subjects, starting
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7 July 2006

London Cerner switch announcement imminent

NHS acute trusts in the capital will next week receive letters from BT notifying them that it has terminated its
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6 July 2006

iSoft begins EPR roll-out at Derby

iSoft has announced that the initial roll-out of its iCM electronic patient record (EPR) system at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation
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6 July 2006

Come together

As mobile devices start taking on more than one function, what implications will there be for healthcare? Colin Jervis of
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6 July 2006

Patient safety becomes priority for NHS IT

The NHS National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has worked with Connecting for Health to build a rigorous system of safety
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5 July 2006

CfH aims to install at 22 acute trusts by October

NHS Connecting for Health and its prime contractors have told a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee that they
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5 July 2006

Tower Hamlets PCT cuts down PBC reporting times

  Data mining software has cut down the length of time that one PCT needs to prepare PBC reports from
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