First patient facing app to get GP system approval
GP complaints in Warrington after Lorenzo switch
Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says GP complaints about incomplete discharge summaries since the trust switched electronic patient records have been largely resolved.
Clinical Software
Sutton integrates social care and health record
The London Borough of Sutton and NHS Sutton Clinical Commissioning Group have created a shared care record with social services involvement from the outset.
Digital Patient
Enter the CCG: on flying pig documents
Dr John Lockley’s clinical commissioning group has been drawing up its local digital roadmap. It’s chances of delivery? Zero, he reckons…
CCIO Network
iPlato launches MyGP appointments app as API talks continue
Patients can now book and cancel GP appointments through a new feature launched on iPlato’s MyGP.
Digital Patient
GPs embracing phone but not Skype consultations
GPs remain resistant to politicians’ calls to adopt Skype consulting, with many citing poor technology and a lack of patient demand, a survey in the British Journal of General Practice has found.
Digital Patient
Another view: of funding GP workload
A review of the funding formula for GPs may be on the way. Neil Paul has been pulling together data that suggests it must look at the impact of ageing on their workload.
AI and Analytics
Healthcare IT primary care news in brief
This week’s industry round-up focuses on news from the primary care sector, including contracts for prescribing software and the use of tablet computers by GPs.
News
Prescribing tool opens up GP data
A new online tool allows people to quickly analyse and respond to the huge GP prescribing datasets released monthly by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
AI and Analytics
Another view: of federation and the IT to make it work
GP Neil Paul opens 2016 by considering some of the challenges of federation and finding the IT to support practices that want to achieve economies of scale without merging.
Feature