UK telehealth firm gains EU recognition
The Health-eLife project, which uses doc@HOME technology from UK-based telehealth services firm Docobo, has been awarded ‘project of the month’ status by the EU. The project has been supported by the EU eTen initiative, designed to promote the deployment of network-based services across Europe. Each month the EU looks at different projects connected to the eTen […]
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Tolven release open source systems for testing
American software developers, the Tolven Institute, have launched a new website to release new open source software to its members. Open source software is an initiative being piloted across the world where programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code of software, allowing it to evolve. TI has launched three new products, licensed by […]
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SMS alerts for prescriptions launched
Irish pharmaceutical software company, Systems Solutions Limited, has incorporated SMS text messages, e-mails and direct mail functionality into its QicScript dispensary system. System Solutions says the software is a first that will allow pharmacists to communicate with their patients easily using their preferred method of communication, choosing between text messages, email or letters. The system […]
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500 EMIS practices to get electronic record transfers
NHS Connecting for Health is to roll out GP2GP record transfer to another 500 practices by the end of March next year. CfH has signed a contract with GP computer supplier EMIS to install its software and carry out training for 250 EMIS practices by the end of the year and a further 250 practices […]
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Extra payments ‘not discussed in detail’ says iSoft
iSoft has said contract payments were ‘not discussed in detail’ with the government before further news of its precarious finances broke last April. The statement was made in response to revelations published in the Guardian on Friday about events leading up to iSoft’s headline-making financial troubles. In an extensive, but unsourced, analysis the newspaper charted events preceding […]
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Review says e-SAP fragmented and lacks standards
A Connecting for Health review of implementations of the electronic single assessment process (e-SAP) has revealed a lack of integration and standards across the country. A National SAP Action Team set up by Connecting for Health’s Care Record Development Board carried out a survey of e-SAP implementation in early summer and consulted on how e-SAP implementation should […]
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BT appoints NHS veteran as London CEO
Paul White, chief executive of Barts and the London NHS Trust is to join BT as chief executive of its severly delayed London NHS IT programme. He will take up the post in the New Year. White who has been CEO of Barts and the London for five years serves on a number of national […]
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Tower Hamlets goes live with e-SAP
Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust has become the first London trust to implement new electronic Single Assessment Process (e-SAP) software, allowing its NHS and social services staff to share care records electronically. e-SAP is NHS Connecting for Health’s project for joint electronic health and social care assessment and care planning for individuals. In the future […]
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GP wins award for patient record access initiative
Dr Amir Hannan has been awarded this year’s John Perry prize at the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group conference in Oxfordshire for his pioneering work in patient record access (PRA) in the UK. The GP and information management and technology lead for Tameside and Glossop PCT won the award for the most important personal […]
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E-learning for foundation doctors launched
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) Publishing Group has launched a new broadband learning service for junior foundation doctors and their clinical tutors. The BMJ Learning Foundation Programme is the first service aimed at helping foundation level 1 and 2 junior doctors with meeting the curriculum requirements of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Department […]
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