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Pharmacy fined for selling patient data

21 October 2015

An online pharmacy part-owned by Emis Health faces a £130,000 fine after it sold customer details to a direct marketing company.

English hospital live with InterSystems

20 October 2015

InterSystems’ electronic patient record system TrakCare has gone live in an English NHS trust for the first time with the help of £7 million in central funding.

Electronic observations at Southampton

20 October 2015

Paper patient charts will be replaced by iPod Touch devices when a new electronic observations system is introduced in Southampton hospitals next month.

EPR delayed by data migration problems

19 October 2015

Referral to treatment data migration problems have forced North Bristol NHS Trust to delay the go-live of its Lorenzo electronic patient record.

CSC urges trusts off ‘ancient’ PAS

19 October 2015

Trust board papers suggest that healthcare computing company CSC is looking to halt support for one of its oldest patient administration systems.

Barcoded medicines to prevent fake drugs

19 October 2015

All prescription medicines will need to carry a barcode on their packaging to reduce the risk of counterfeit and unsafe drugs entering the healthcare system following new European regulations.

Healthcare IT news round-up

16 October 2015

This weeks’ roundup includes news that Spire Healthcare has adopted a wide range of Carestream technologies, a new contract for The Learning Clinic from its first trust, and INPS one-day events.