EMIS goes national with digital TV appointment booking
Primary care IT supplier EMIS has extended its online appointment booking service so that patients can now book GP surgery appointments via digital television or by using their mobile phone. EMIS has announced that it is extending the digital television service to cover all practices across the country using its EMIS Access module after successful […]
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East Cheshire chooses CliniSys for chemo prescribing
East Cheshire NHS Trust has awarded a chemotherapy prescribing solution contract to CliniSys Oncology. CliniSys will deploy its ChemoCare solution in the trust later this year where it will provide an e-prescribing solution for adult, solid tumour and haematological oncology at the Macclesfield District General Hospital site. Once implemented, CliniSys says the system will help […]
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Fulsome praise for departing CfH boss
The news that Richard Granger is to leave Connecting for Health and the helm of the NHS IT Programme later this year has elicited a clutch of glowing tributes from some of the most senior industry and NHS executives he has worked with over the past five years. Over the weekend Granger received effusive praise and statements […]
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New deal to deploy data mining tool
Quicksilva Software Solutions has secured a deal with life sciences specialists Applied InSilico to deploy their artificial intelligence-based data mining tool called ELE, the Evolutionary Learning Environment, globally. ELE is a data analysis tool capable of reviewing huge and complex volumes of information quickly. This enables it to uncover relationships between diseases and genes and […]
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NAO says information vital to cutting prescribing costs
A National Audit Office study has found that the NHS could save £200m a year by GPs prescribing drugs fewer branded drugs and instead using generics. It concludes that better information is a vital factor to help GPs analyse their knowledge and keep their knowledge up to date. The report says that £200m a year […]
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Safety now number one priority for CfH
Professor Michael Thick, the chief clinical officer for Connecting for Health, explains how the agency has made patient safety its number one concern.
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Diabetes prescribing decision support tool launched
A new computerised prescribing decision support tool that will provide healthcare professionals with patient-specific, evidence-based support in the management of Type 2 diabetes will be launched today by academics at Keele University. The tool has been developed by the university’s Department of Medicines Management and delivers tailored management recommendations by cross-referencing individual patient profiles with […]
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Nottingham buys CliniSys chemo prescribing solution
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen the CliniSys Oncology ChemoCare chemotherapy prescribing solution for three of its hospital sites, the software has been funded by NHS Connecting for Health. The solution will provide a multi pharmacy application for adults, haematology and paediatrics across the Nottingham City Hospital, Queens Medical Centre and Kingsmill Hospital. ChemoCare […]
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Voicemails prompt patients to pick up medicine
A message system that enables pharmacists to leave an automatically-generated voicemail for patients whose prescriptions are ready for collection is to be offered by a major pharmacy systems supplier. Message Dynamics has reached a heads of agreement to integrate its messaging system with Cegedim Rx’s Pharmacy Manager and Nexphase. The agreement covers two Message Dynamics products: the Repeat Rx […]
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Isle of Man chooses System C for major contract
System C has won a £7.5m contract to provide an integrated island-wide healthcare IT service in the Isle of Man. The contract was won against stiff competition with senior sources confirming reports that iSoft and Cerner, contractors to provide systems for the NHS in England, were in the running. Nobles Hospital in Douglas and the […]
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