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1m blood donors book online

2 February 2016

Nearly 1.5 million blood donation appointments have been booked online since NHS Blood and Transplant introduced a digital booking system two years ago.

Tech money to fund transformation

1 February 2016

Most of the £1 billion promised by the government for investment in health IT is for capital investment and will be used to fund local transformation programmes enabled by technology, the interim chair of the National Information Board has said.

Healthcare IT primary care news in brief

29 January 2016

This week’s industry round-up focuses on news from the primary care sector, including contracts for prescribing software and the use of tablet computers by GPs.

Islington awards £7.4m IDCR contract

28 January 2016

Islington council and clinical commissioning group have awarded a five year, £7.4 million contract to BT to create an integrated digital care record for the borough’s patients.

EDM: Southern hospitals pick Kainos

28 January 2016

A group of three southern acute trusts has chosen Kainos to supply an electronic document management system and clinical portal in contracts worth nearly £8 million and partly funded by central government.

GS1 demonstrator sites announced

27 January 2016

Six NHS hospital trusts have been named as demonstrator sites for the use of GS1 standards and will share £12 million in funding from the Department of Health.

New code for open source EHR released

27 January 2016

IMS Maxims has released the latest version of its open source electronic patient record, including all of the enhancements made for Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.