Healthcare IT news in brief
This week’s industry round-up includes a number of contract announcements from Hitachi, ANS and 6PM.
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This week’s industry round-up includes a number of contract announcements from Hitachi, ANS and 6PM.
A telehealth text messaging system developed in Stoke has been adopted by more than 70 health and social care services across the UK.
Access to NHS Summary Care Records is being extended to scheduled care settings and dedicated medical rooms in police stations.
EXCLUSIVE: Around two thirds of NHS trusts are sharing discharge summaries electronically with GPs and one fifth are prescribing electronically, early findings from digital maturity self-assessments show.
A programme launched in London today aims to bring together clinicians with healthcare providers, entrepreneurs and industry to speed up the the adoption and commercialisation of digital health technologies.
NHS organisations will have access to £1 billion in capital funding and £400 million in revenue to help them become paperless over the next five years.
System C has acquired Careflow Connect Ltd, developer of the Careflow secure mobile communications system for clinicians and care professionals.
Thousands of women could avoid invasive diagnostic procedures for suspected womb cancer under an NHS

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has begun rolling out the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has said NHS staff face the sack or
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health and Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trusts have launched a

University Hospitals of Leicester has upgraded its Nervecentre EPR system and begun the phased deployment