Survey confirms telehealth ignorance
More than 90% of people in the UK do not know what telehealth and telecare is, research from the government’s Technology Strategy Board has found.
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Greater East Midlands CSU visualises BI
Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit has integrated a data visualisation tool into its business intelligence platform.
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George Eliot deploys Lorenzo
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust has gone live with its Lorenzo electronic patient record system from CSC.
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Bristol joins up pathology
Three Bristol NHS Trust and Public Health England have signed a contract with Capita and CliniSys for its integrated laboratory information system across the region.
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CoWs to bust bureaucracy
Junior doctors spend 66% of their time accessing or updating patient notes, and computers on wheels reduce ward round times, a report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre has found.
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Apple kits out health info platform
Apple has announced its new iPhone operating system will feature a health information platform, called HealthKit, which will work as a central repository for data from various health and fitness devices.
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Salford plans integrated care system
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust wants to create a single integrated care organisation in the area, underpinned by its Allscripts electronic patient record system.
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Surrey pilots telehealth for depression
Surrey and Borders partnership NHS Foundation Trust will pilot a bespoke telehealth system for service users with severe depression.
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Mixed interest in tech fund open source
There is mixed interest among NHS IT directors in the open source focus of NHS England’s Integrated Digital Care Fund.
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Blackpool retrenches on Alert EPR plans
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has admitted that it has failed to implement Alert as its electronic patient record system and is now going for a best of breed approach to EPR.
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