1 June 2006

iSoft sells off Swiss operations

Health IT software firm iSoft has sold its operations in Switzerland to Nexus, a local provider of healthcare IT solutions,
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1 June 2006

Online medicines library gets revamp

The National electronic Library for Medicine, which collects online news and RSS feeds on medicines information, is set to expand
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1 June 2006

Boots selects Spinal Tap for prescriptions

Boots has announced that it is to use Quicksilva’s Spinal Tap integration software, on top of the company’s existing Smartscript
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1 June 2006

Morecambe Bay goes live with PAS from CSC

Three sites in University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust have gone live with an iSoft patient administration system (PAS)
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31 May 2006

Choose and Book fails on air

Enthusiasts and sceptics among the GP community had their say about Choose and Book on a BBC investigation of the
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31 May 2006

Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients

Hospital and GP records for 1.5 million patients are to be available for the NHS to share in a ground-breaking
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30 May 2006

June Choose and Book target ‘impossible’ in London

The GP incentive scheme target for 25% of referrals to be made through Choose and Book in June appears to
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30 May 2006

EMIS software now tracks kidney disease risk

EMIS have developed an upgrade to their PCS and LV general practice record software that trawls records to identify patients
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30 May 2006

Care records now running 2.5 years late

Health minister Lord Warner has said that plans to introduce an integrated electronic medical record for every NHS patient in
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30 May 2006

Doctors back calls for review of NHS digitisation

An overwhelming majority of GPs and hospital doctors have backed the calls of senior academics for an independent assessment of
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