Asklepios rolls out video conferencing to all doctors
Asklepios is to install web-based videoconferencing equipment on the 13,000 PCs of all its medical doctors.
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NHS Choices gets central role in future health
The DH’s flagship website has been given a central role in Lord Darzi’s plans for reforming the health service in England.
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Scotland commits to incremental e-health
The Scottish government has pledged consolidate its SCI Gateway and Store, and enhance its Emergency Care Summary Service.
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Scottish GPs to get choice of systems
The Scottish government is to set up a national framework contract for GP systems and launch a procurement for an IT system or systems to replace GPASS, according to its new e-health strategy. The plan means Scottish practices are likely to be brought under a Scottish version of England’s GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) agreement […]
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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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EHI’s industry news roundup 06.06.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 06 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Barts and the London School uses TurningPoint interactive assessments Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry has announced that it has chosen Turning Technologies interactive assessment tool, […]
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EMIS enables digital TV repeat prescriptions
Patients at around 1,400 surgeries using EMIS Access software across England will soon be able to request repeat prescriptions using digital TV, following an extension of the firm’s partnership with DigiTV. The primary care IT supplier has extended its digital TV service so that as well as being able to book GP surgery appointments via […]
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NHS Direct Online to be moved to Choices
Parts of NHS Direct Online, the highly successful and popular web-based patient advice and information service, look set to be transferred to rival NHS Choices. The planned move is not thought to impact NHS Direct’s core nurse-led national telephone advice service, which handles over 8 million calls a year. NHS Choices, the patient information portal run […]
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Screening Programme automates reporting
The English National Screening Programme for Diabetic Retinopathy (ENSPDR), run by the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is to go live later this year with a new reporting application called EARS, built by Quicksilva Software Solutions. EARS will streamline the diabetic retinopathy screening programme‘s reporting process for Local Screening Programmes (LSPs) across England. Currently, around […]
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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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