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Four South trusts tender for ePMA

10 March 2014 12:00 AM

Four southern acute trusts have tendered for an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system worth £5m-£7m, backed by central funding.

Rotherham asks Monitor to back off

10 March 2014 12:00 AM

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is to ask Monitor to relax its oversight of its Meditech v6.0 electronic patient record programme.

US and UK take forward health IT MoU

7 March 2014 12:00 AM

The US and UK are working together on harmonising quality indicators, releasing and using health data, the Blue Button initiative, and the interoperability of electronic patient record systems, under their memorandum of understanding on healthcare IT.

HSCIC to audit data releases by 2 April

6 March 2014 11:52 AM

The Health and Social Care Information Centre will take four weeks to audit the data releases of its predecessor, the NHS Information Centre, following intense public scrutiny of the bodies to which it released patient information.

GP IT funding split evenly nationwide

6 March 2014 12:00 AM

GP IT funding will be paid to clinical commissioning groups on a per-head-of-population basis under new plans revealed by NHS England.

Taunton picks IMS Maxims

6 March 2014 12:00 AM

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has picked IMS Maxims as preferred bidder to supply its electronic patient record system.

Hunt optimistic about NHS and technology

5 March 2014 12:32 PM

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is optimistic about the future of the NHS because of the “technology revolution” that is about to hit the delivery of health care.