You don’t have mail consultations
Eight out of ten GPs have never held an email consultation with a patient, according to an exclusive eHealth Insider survey conducted by doctors.net.uk.
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Care.data extract needs explanation
A request to take a massive new data extract from GP practices can proceed, but a clear explanation is first required of why the data is needed and how it will be used, an independent advisory group has said.
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App allows real-time feedback
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has launched an app to allow patients to give feedback in real-time.
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Half of Welsh referrals now e-referrals
Airedale uses SystmOne with telehealth
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust’s telehealth hub has significantly reduced admissions of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients and increased prisoner access to healthcare.
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OpenAthens gives access to 1.5m
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has contracted with Eduserv to enable more than 1.5m NHS users to access all centrally procured online information, including e-journals and articles.
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Early Christmas for Kainos
Kainos’ Christmas came early last year when the company signed three NHS trusts to take its Evolve electronic medical records system in one day.
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Prescribing tool launched
Primary care researchers have launched a tool to help reduce the risk of commonly made drug prescribing errors.
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Ricketts to open EHI commissioning event
Bob Ricketts, the NHS Commissioning Board’s director of commissioning support strategy and market development, will open EHI’s latest conference, Information for Commissioning.
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Southern consortium seals Sectra deal
Swedish company Sectra has announced that a major consortium in the South of England has signed a deal for Sectra PACS.
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