18 November 2005

HPA wins award for e-learning project

 The Health Protection Agency has won an award for an e-learning package that instructs doctors how to deal with major
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17 November 2005

Liverpool trust rejects delayed PACS

A leading NHS trust in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been forced to scrap its implementation of
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17 November 2005

NHS Direct proposes online social care wiki

NHS Direct could soon be setting up an online social care ‘wiki’ that would allow patients to learn from one
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17 November 2005

Award for time-saving medical images system

An online system that has reduced the time taken to make clinical images available to consultants from four weeks to about
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16 November 2005

Scots consumers call for information on record sharing

The Scottish Consumer Council is pressing for more information to be distributed to patients about the way their electronic health
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15 November 2005

ETP potential

EHI talks to Tim Donohoe, group director at Connecting for Health, about the development of the national electronic prescribing service.
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15 November 2005

PCT forced to revert to paper systems

A primary care trust has been forced to abandon its planned move to a Connecting for Health community patient administration
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15 November 2005

Prescription processing to get IT upgrade in April

A new IT system for processing prescriptions is to be rolled out by the Prescription Pricing Authority (PPA) from next April,
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15 November 2005

Txts 2 help U quit

Text messages, e-mail and telephone support are to be made available from the NHS to help smokers quit. The new digital approach to
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15 November 2005

US government awards EHR pilot contracts

The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC,
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