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Industry round-up

14 August 2015

Digital Health News rounds up the latest industry news, including company announcements, appointments, product launches, and roll-outs.

DH refuses to release IT savings report

13 August 2015

The Department of Health has turned down a Freedom of Information request from Digital Health News to see a report that purportedly shows how technology can save the NHS billions of pounds each year.

Cumbria launches social care referrals

13 August 2015

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust is now able to refer patients to social care services at the “press of a button.”

SCR ‘at tipping point’ with clinicians

12 August 2015

The Summary Care Record is approaching 50,000 views per week, according to figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Public backs but doesn’t use digi health

11 August 2015

People are keen to use digital health services, but have little knowledge of those already on offer and are keener for them to support than replace traditional services, a YouGov survey for Trustmarque has suggested.

Wales pilots GP2GP service

10 August 2015

Wales has started piloting a GP2GP service to digitally transfer a patient’s record from one medical practice to another.

Sheffield steels itself for EDM project

10 August 2015

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has picked Restore’s CCube as its electronic document management system as part of its transformation into a digital hospital that will also see it go-live with CSC’s Lorenzo next month.