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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.

CQC cites EPR concerns at Walsall

26 January 2016

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

26 January 2016

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.