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 […]
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Community pharmacies targeted in NHSmail drive
An pharmacies wanting access to a new £75 million performance-based fund will need an account.
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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.
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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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A third of GPs live with EPS R2
A third of GP practices in England are now live with the Electronic Prescription Service Release 2, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has said.
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