2,400 users of Birmingham patient portal
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust’s patient portal has registered more than 2,400 users in its first year.
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ChangingNHS portal launched
The British Medical Association has launched a web portal to help people understand the changes happening in the NHS.
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Luton develops patient portal
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is trialling a remote electronic monitoring system for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
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Scottish practices trial patient portal
Two GP practices in Scotland are to run a trial of an online patient portal enabling patients to access their records over the internet, the Scottish Government has announced. The Patient Portal will run at two practices in NHS Ayrshire and Arran over the next six months to enable patients to view test results and […]
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A year in review
Babylifecheck site launched
The Department of Health has launched an interactive website offering advice and information to parents of babies as part of its commitment to provide online health checks. NHS Baby LifeCheck is one of three initial NHS LifeChecks that the DH committed to launch following the 2006 white paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say. However, […]
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CfH aims for 4 million HealthSpace users by 2014
NHS Connecting for Health says it is hoping to sign up 4m patients to its online personal health record HealthSpace by 2014. The ambitious target is understood to form part of the business case for HealthSpace, for which Treasury funding is being sought. Development plans for the patient portal are still awaiting Treasury approval. HealthSpace has […]
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Gap between SCR concept and reality
The gap between the concept of the NHS Summary Care Record and the reality of implementing it will continue to be the focus of its evaluation programme. Patricia Greenhalgh, professor of primary care at University College London, which was commissioned to evaluate the SCR early adopters, told yesterday’s Healthcare Interoperability conference that the evaluation programme […]
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Connecting for Health to take over NHS Choices
NHS Connecting for Health is to take over responsibility for the NHS Choices portal, the government’s national patient portal for delivering patient choice and health information services. Following the transfer, NHS Choices will become the point of access for HealthSpace, the online organiser used to give people access to their NHS Summary Care Record. It […]
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First patient portal launched in Estonia
A Tallinn hospital has become the first in Estonia to introduce an ePatient portal, allowing patients to view their medical records online. The iPatsient (ePatient) portal, began its pilot phase in November 2007 at East Tallinn Central Hospital and is now fully online for all patients to log onto. To date, nearly 1,000 people have […]
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