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Islington awards £7.4m IDCR contract

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

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

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

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.

CQC cites EPR concerns at Walsall

England’s chief inspector of hospitals has recommended Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust be placed into special measures, highlighting issues with its electronic patient record as an area for improvement.

Christie trials ‘Tinder’ for locum docs

The Christie Hospital in Manchester is piloting a system for booking locum doctors that may do for agency work what Tinder has done for internet dating and Uber has done for mini cabbing.

£1B question answered “shortly”: Freeman

EXCLUSIVE: Details of how the government will invest more than £1 billion on digitising the NHS over the next five years will be announced shortly, minister for life sciences George Freeman has said.

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