HSCN connections this year after delays – NHS Digital
Health and Social Care Network connections should be available before the end of the year, but a report to NHS Digital’s board warns that the vital digital infrastructure project is “in doubt”.
Infrastructure
1.1 million on NHSmail 2, push for social care expansion
More than a million people have now switched to NHSmail 2, with ambitions to extend the service to pharmacies and social care.
Infrastructure
Verify (and Facebook) tested for NHS online identity service
The new director of the government’s online identity scheme has raised the possibility of rolling out the service in the NHS, despite concerns about its security.
Infrastructure
Ewan Davis: working on the (block)chain gang
Some blockchain techs have great potential in healthcare. But the NHS needs to think carefully about which techs are useful and which are just hype.
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Totes amazing: site visit to Pharmacy2U
A decade and a half after it became the UK’s first online chemist, Pharmacy2U has opened a ‘medication hub’ that can handle and dispatch a million prescriptions a month. Lyn Whitfield went to see transformation in action.
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NHSMail 2 rolled out to 200,000 NHS staff
More than 200,000 people have already been switched to NHSmail 2 and most will have barely noticed, the HSCIC says.
Infrastructure
Brexit: What it could mean for NHS data
The NHS has received plenty of attention during the EU Referendum debate but the implications for the data it holds offshore have barely been examined.
Infrastructure
Bitcoin tech applied to clinical trial documents
The blockchain technology that underpins the virtual currency Bitcoin has been applied to clinical trial documents, to see if it can stop them being altered to make it look as if medicines are more effective than they are.
Infrastructure
Pharmacy2U unveils massive prescription centre in Leeds
Pharmacy2U has unveiled a £3.5 million “state of the art prescription fulfilment facility” in Leeds, that will increase its capacity ten times and enable it to dispatch a million prescription items a month.
Infrastructure
First NHS e-Referrals API by end of year
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is developing a set of open APIs for its NHS e-Referrals service, with plans to deliver the first interface by the end of the year.
Infrastructure