Welsh want to contact GPs online
Almost four out of five internet users would like to be able to contact their GP practice online, according to a survey conducted in Wales. Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT programme, questioned 313 internet users in July and August this year about how they would like to use the internet for healthcare. A total […]
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Bulgaria launches eCard prescriptions project
Bulgaria has begun an online electronic prescriptions project using a citizen-held e-health card. The first online transaction, carried out earlier this month, marked the official launch of the Bulgarian electronic health card (eCard) providing citizens with access to e-health services, beginning with e-prescriptions. Bulgaria’s first eCard pilot includes seven physicians, four pharmacies and 1,000 patients who […]
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Rapid deployment for Orion workstation system
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust in North-west England has deployed a new clinical workstation system which provides acute care summary records across four hospitals and an outpatient clinic. The trust is using Orion Health’s Clinical Integration Framework – a software platform for creating integrated electronic health records across organisation. Users view the records using […]
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Mid Cheshire switch to Ascribe e-prescribing
Pharmacists at the Mid Cheshire NHS Hospitals Trust have started using a web-based e-pharmacy system from Ascribe to fully automate the department and integrate with existing systems. The system, called Web Pharmacy, connects information throughout the pharmacy department, between prescribing, pharmacy and administration processes, including stock management and finance. Ascribe’s executive chairman, Stephen Critchlow, told […]
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Evolution, not revolution
Jens Naumann, head of the German industrial association of health IT companies, talks to Philipp Gratzel about the forthcoming roll out of electronic health cards.
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Bulgaria begins electronic health cards pilot
The Bulgarian Ministry of Health and the National Health Insurance Fund have begun piloting the issuing of electronic health cards, provided by ICW, in cooperation with Cisco and Kontrax. An ICW spokesperson told E-Health Europe: “As of this month, 1,000 citizens from the town of Slivnitza and the village Aldomirovzi will receive their personal electronic […]
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BNF for mobile devices launched
Britain’s best-known medicines guide, the British National Formulary, is now available especially configured to be used on a range of mobile devices including BlackBerrys and Apple’s new iPhone. The BNF aims to provide prescribers, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals with essential information on the selection of safe and effective medicines for individual patients. It is […]
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Patients need assurance on online health records
Patients need to be convinced that electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are safe and will benefit them, a group of leading academics have warned. The academics argue that although ePHRs, such as the UK’s HealthSpace, have huge potential patients have not yet been convinced and the business case is still to be established. They say […]
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German smartcard rollout brought forward
In a surprise move, the German health IT agency, Gematik, has accelerated the schedule of the German national smartcard project to April 2008.
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Lloyds Pharmacy IT system integrates Multilex DDF
First DataBank Europe (FDBE) has successfully integrated its Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF) into Lloyds community pharmacy chain’s new dispensing system, Complete Medication and Medication Support System (CoMPaSS). CoMPaSS is designed to streamline the 110m prescriptions dispensed by Lloyds every year. The system was first piloted in Wales last year and has since been […]
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