‘Air traffic control’ for Cumbria
Cumbria’s clinical commissioners have bought an ‘air traffic control’ system for referring patients from Strata Health.
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Wales leads on dose monitoring
NHS Wales is implementing a facility for automated radiation dose monitoring as part of its picture archive and communication system renewal.
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TPP and Microtest sign up for MIG
More than 99% of UK GPs will be able to share patient data following the integration of TPP and Microtest with the Medical Interoperability Gateway.
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Wirral adds Cerner foetal monitor to EPR
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be the first UK trust to implement Cerner’s FetaLink maternity technology.
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DH report sends mixed mobile messages
The connectivity needed to support a big roll-out of mobile working is not yet in place, a report on the Department of Health’s flagship National Mobile Health Worker project has concluded.
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PwC finds ‘even more’ IT savings
A report from consultants PriceWaterhouseCoopers has concluded that the NHS could save billions of pounds a year if “ambitious, proactive NHS organisations” improved their use of information technology.
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Hunt wants paperless NHS in five years
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has set out a tight timetable for making all records and communications in the NHS paperless in a speech to the think-tank Policy Exchange.
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SMEs ‘enthusiastic’ for app directory
Healthcare app developers are excited about the NHS Commissioning Board’s new online apps directory, which is now live.
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‘Grave concerns’ over new GP dataset
GPs and privacy experts have “grave concerns” about an extensive new dataset to be extracted from GP practices.
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Hull and East Yorkshire takes Lorenzo
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is the second trust to commit to take CSC’s Lorenzo electronic patient record system under a new agreement between the company and the Department of Health.
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