First patient facing app to get GP system approval

Open your APIs: GPSoC’s integration project two years on
The latest GP Systems of Choice contract required principal GP system suppliers to open up to new players. Two years on, news editor Rebecca McBeth looks at what has been achieved and what remains work in progress.
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Seventeen suppliers sign GPSoC Lot 3
Seventeen suppliers have signed up to provide cross care-setting interoperability services as part of Lot 3 of the GP Systems of Choice contract.
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TPP and HSCIC still talking on GPSoC
The Health and Social Care Information Centre and TPP are still in negotiations around the new GP Systems of Choice contract, which they hope to conclude by the end of this week.
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Emis pulls legacy systems in England
Emis is withdrawing its legacy systems from the English market over the next year because they do not meet the requirements of the new GP Systems of Choice contract.
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GPSoC signed without TPP
Sixteen suppliers of GP IT systems have signed up to a new GP Systems of Choice framework, but TPP has not.
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Another view
Neil Paul wonders why it is so hard to get information out of GP systems, and whether the new GP Systems of Choice framework will generate some much-needed changes.
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