NHS Direct launches SMS service
NHS Direct has launched a new text messaging service that allows users to obtain details of local health facilities. Anyone wishing to find their nearest GP, dentist, pharmacy, optician, walk-in centre, A&E or hospital in England can text the name of the service required, followed by a postcode, to 61121. A text message will be […]
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Helios Clinic Group to introduce doctors’ portal
Germany’s Helios Clinic Group is to introduce a group wide doctors’ portal product called jesaja.net, to be delivered by CompuGroup subsidiary ISPro GmbH. Use of the jesaja.net portal by Helios clinics for acute cases will help improve secure communication between doctors and hospitals across Germany’s public and private healthcare systems. After the first successful evaluations […]
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Direction promised on NHS information strategy
New clear direction on NHS IT and information strategy has been promised ‘within weeks’ by one of the leaders of the Department of Health’s informatics review. A report in Health Service Journal, quotes review manager Tom Denwood saying current ‘chaos’ on NHS IT strategy will be resolved within weeks, with a major shake-up at the DH to […]
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Private GP service provider pilots telehealth
A private company that runs almost 40 NHS general practices is piloting a telehealth solution in one of its surgeries. Chilvers McCrea has set up a separate company in conjunction with telehealth providers ITAL to provide telemonitoring services to patients with long term conditions. The pilot site in Harlow, Essex has given pulse oximetry equipment […]
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Phase two EPS accreditation due within months
The first pharmacy and GP system suppliers expect to receive technical accreditation for release two of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) in April and May this year, according to Connecting for Health (CfH). The IT agency has published the status of GP and pharmacy systems currently progressing through the compliance process for release two of […]
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Bedford Hospital uses PDAs to track repair jobs
Facilities and Estates maintenance staff at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust are using PDAs to receive and clear job dockets for repairs and maintenance. The system, provided by TAAP together with Mindworks, takes information from the department’s helpdesk system and sends out job dockets over a Vodafone mobile GPRS network. Staff previously worked with paper dockets […]
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PCTs to sign-up practices by default to GPSoC
Connecting for Health has told PCTs to sign up GP practices for GP Systems of Choice without getting explicit consent from practices, in a change to original implementation plans. The revised arrangements for the introduction of GPSoC mean all qualifying practices will be automatically included in a GPSoC ‘call off agreement’ unless they specifically request […]
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Cerner Ireland opens in Dublin
Cerner has opened a new office in Dublin as it prepares to implement RIS/PACS and Order Communications across parts of the Republic of Ireland later this year, and its Irish division will renamed Cerner Ireland Ltd. The company has been working in Ireland since June 2004, when St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, chose to implement […]
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BioWisdom upgrades data integration platform
Pharmaceutical software specialist BioWisdom has launched a new version of its SRS system – a bioinformatics data integration platform, designed to meet the database search and retrieval needs of biologists and bioinformaticians. The latest release, SRS version 8.3, provides new functionality, an improved user interface and support for the latest hardware and software platforms. The […]
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Interoperability road map in development
A Turkish research consortium is developing a road map for e-health interoperability that would eventually link up the health information systems of EU Member States in a seamless web. Researchers at the Software Research and Development Centre, based in the Middle East Technical University (METU), have found that Europeans are more mobile than ever before, […]
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