Irish community pharmacies now have access to Healthmail
A secure clinical e-mail system is now being extended to all health care professionals in primary care in Ireland, including community pharmacists.
Infrastructure
Man wrongly arrested for prescription fraud after IT bungle
The Brighton man expected to walk out of the pharmacy with his medicine. Instead he walked out with a police escort, thanks to an IT error.
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Mobile and app news in brief
This week's app round-up is preoccupied with overflowing emergency departments and whether an app can be used to convince patients to go elsewhere. On the other end of the spectrum, a US company wants to keep you calm with an app that alerts you every time your breathing become "tense". Cut the queues Kent […]
Digital Patient
Community pharmacies targeted in NHSmail drive
An pharmacies wanting access to a new £75 million performance-based fund will need an account.
Infrastructure
Healthcare IT news in brief
Lorenzo go-live delay blamed on centre A Midlands trust has delayed deployment of a Lorenzo electronic patient by two months because of an eight-week hold-up in central approval. North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust will now go-live with the EPR in May, rather than March, In its November board papers, the trust said the Department […]
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Patients Know Best used to train pharmacy students
Aston University will soon be teaching its pharmacy students how to use a patient controlled online medical records system.
Clinical Software
Healthcare IT industry news in brief
This week’s industry round-up focuses on companies, and includes news of rebrands, a new chief executive for Caradigm, and projects that firms are involved in, including a huge European telehealth trial led by Royal Philips.
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Healthcare IT news in brief
This week’s round-up includes the news that Leicester Royal Infirmary has installed a new pharmacy robot and Jersey is implementing e-prescribing in oncology.
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Online pharmacy faces tech problems
The UK’s biggest online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, has left patients without essential medication for weeks as it struggles with technical problems at its new warehouse facility
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Pharmacists given access to SCR
Community pharmacists are to be given access to the NHS Summary Care Record, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has announced.
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