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GP appointments auto-cancelled via text

25 September 2013 12:00 AM

GP practices are using new iPlato functionality to allow patients to automatically cancel GP appointments via their mobile phone.

Trusts get RiO upgrade

25 September 2013 12:00 AM

BT is upgrading community and mental health organisations in London and the south of England to Release 2 of electronic patient record system RiO.

Jr doctor creates ward problems app

24 September 2013 12:00 AM

A junior doctor at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust has created an app to flag up problems and inefficiencies on the wards.

Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.

Care.data publicity ‘not adequate’ – GPC

24 September 2013 12:00 AM

The practice-based publicity campaign around care.data is “not adequate” and wider awareness raising activities will take place before extractions begin, the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee says.

BJSS re-engineers HES platform

23 September 2013 7:06 AM

BJSS has re-engineered the data platform supporting Hospital Episode Statistics, reducing the data processing time from 20 days to five.

Emis and Ascribe look for ‘sweet spots’

23 September 2013 12:00 AM

Emis and Ascribe have created a “sweet spots map” of common users to develop exemplars for their integrated care strategy.

South West trusts find RIS slow going

23 September 2013 12:00 AM

Taunton and Somerset and Yeovil District Hospital NHS foundation trusts are still migrating data to a new radiology system, three months after the deadline for doing so.