Sandwell uses texts for immunisation
Sandwell Primary Care Trust has signed a deal with iPlato to implement its patient care messaging system to remind parents to attend immunisation clinics.
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iPlato supports Birmingham health checks
GP practices in Birmingham have used text messaging to invite patients for vascular screening checks, generating a 44% response rate from patients. Text messaging specialist iPlato said 24 GP surgeries from Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust used its Patient Care Messaging to call people for a vascular check. The checks, branded NHS Health […]
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iPlato launches mobile internet service
Text messaging specialist iPlato has launched a smartphone service to enable GP practices to create their own mobile internet sites. The service, mSite, gives licensed users of iPlato’s Patient Care Messaging system free access to the module, which allows practices to create their own mobile internet site to inform patients about opening hours, contact details, […]
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EHI’s industry round up 22.12.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up includes news about the benefits that trusts are seeing from deploying new technology, launches and partnerships between leading healthcare technology companies. Trusts reaps service desk accreditation benefits The Primary Care Informatics Unit covering NHS Blackburn with Darwen and NHS East Lancashire says it has seen "tangible benefits" since […]
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Flu service ‘misses other conditions’
Nine out of 10 GPs believe that diagnosing swine flu over the phone will mean that other diseases may be missed, according to the results of a survey conducted in the last few days. A total of 251 GPs responded to a poll by GP newspaper and 87% said diagnosing swine flu over the telephone […]
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iPlato supports Southwark MMR drive
GP surgeries in Southwark Primary Care trust are using iPlato text messaging to invite patients for MMR jabs and to alert parents to recent measles outbreaks in local schools. The initiative has been launched in response to concern about the rising number of measles cases reported in Britain over the past few months. In common […]
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iPLATO lets patients update records automatically
Patients of the Bush Doctors and Richford Gate Medical Practice in Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust will soon receive automated voice messages requesting information to update their medical record. The free service will send an automated voice message to a patient’s mobile asking them to confirm whether they smoke or not. The automated messaging […]
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PCT uses text messages to tackle obesity
Hammersmith and Fulham PCT has piloted the use of text messaging to calculate patients’ body mass indexes (BMIs) and contact those who are classified as obese. It intends to use the scheme across its 26 surgeries from this month. The west London PCT sent out text messages to almost 1000 patients over the Christmas period, […]
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Lewisham cuts missed appointments with SMS
Lewisham PCT has reduced the number of missed appointments in 16 practices by 27% by using text message appointment reminders from the iPlato Patient Care Messaging software. The PCT which first started using iPlato last July now has 43% of its patients signed up to use the service. The PCT attributes the fall in missed […]
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iPlato deploy SMS to Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
Health text messaging specialists iPlato have agreed a deal to provide their patient care messaging service to 26 doctors’ surgeries in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham covering over 165,000 patients. The deal is iPlato’s largest deployment to date and will allow patients to interact with their surgery via mobile text messaging on a […]
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