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NHS Wales starts on electronic discharge

19 November 2010 12:13 AM

The NHS Wales Informatics Service has announced the development of electronic discharge functionality for Welsh GP practices.

Allscripts picked for Southern Australia

19 November 2010 12:00 AM

Southern Australia Health has named Allscripts as the Vendor of Choice (VOC) for a major project to upgrade clinical IT systems across the huge sparsely populated state.

Ozzie docs offered iPad election pledge

18 November 2010 4:11 AM

The Labor-party premier of the Australian state of Victoria has pledged to provide all doctors in the state with an iPad, if re-elected.

Norway signs €90m deal with IBM

18 November 2010 12:53 AM

The Central Norway Regional Health Authority has signed a deal worth almost €90m (£75m) with IBM for IT systems to support reporting of health information, logistics and finance across all of the country’s hospitals.

First NHS trust goes live with Alert

18 November 2010 12:12 AM

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation has become the first NHS trust to go live with an electronic patient record system from Alert Life Sciences, E-health Insider can exclusively reveal.

Greenhalgh attacks HealthSpace response

18 November 2010 12:00 AM

The author of the definitive study of the personal health record portal HealthSpace has attacked the Department of Health’s response to the research.

Lorenzo “not yet stable” says Connelly

18 November 2010 12:00 AM

Department of Health director general of informatics Christine Connelly says that Lorenzo Release 1.9 is not yet stable at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, the first site to which it was deployed six months ago.