European Mobile Health Takes First Steps
Mobile health aims to do nothing less than turn traditional healthcare on its head. As numerous speakers at Mobile Health Europe pointed out, to describe care provided away from a doctor’s office or hospital clinic as "remote care" misses the point entirely if you’re a patient. The promise of mobile healthcare is to enable care […]
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Torex Wins Contracts at Two Shared Services Sites
Torex Health has been awarded five year contracts to implement Oracle financial services software at two shared services centres due to open in autumn this year. The centres at Bristol and South Leeds will provide a range of financial services to various NHS organisations including acute, primary care and ambulance trusts in two UK regions […]
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Expanded Role for NHS Direct
Supporting people with chronic conditions, supporting ambulance services and reducing waiting times in A&E will be part of the expanded role for NHS Direct, health secretary Alan Milburn has announced. At a speech in Newcastle to mark the service’s fourth anniversary, Mr Milburn said, "NHS Direct shows that putting in the resources delivers real results […]
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BT to Deliver the Technology for Scotland’s NHS 24
NHS 24, the Scottish version of NHS Direct, has placed a £20.5m contract with BT to provide the telephone communications systems that will underpin the new service and integrate it with electronic patient records. Under the ten-year partnership deal BT will deliver the managed network and IT services that will allow everyone in Scotland to […]
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