GPASSed and gone
Scotland has been quietly surging ahead with its e-health strategy in primary care. Reporter Rebecca Todd went to see what has been achieved.
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Live issues
There were plenty of unanswered questions for primary care IT by the end of EHI Live 2010. But delegates did get some practical glimpses of the way ahead. Fiona Barr reports.
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CompuGroup wins Swedish regional deal
Germany’s CompuGroup Medical has won the contract to provide an integrated electronic patient record system to primary and outpatient care centres in the Swedish region of Skåne.
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PCTs to go in massive NHS reorganisation
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced that primary care trusts are to be abolished as part of a massive reorganisation of the NHS.
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System C wins Microsoft accolade
System C has been named Microsoft’s public sector health partner of the year, picked from over 3,000 entries from across the world.
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EU launches 27 health IT projects
The European Union has launched 27 e-health projects this year following a call under the EU Framework Programme 7.
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Ex-Kable MD joins E-Health Media board
Mark Hudson, former managing director of Kable Ltd, has joined the board of E-Health Media Ltd, publishers of E-Health Insider, the UK’s leading source of news on healthcare information technology.
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NHS Scotland picks Ensemble to integrate
NHS Scotland has awarded a contract to InterSystems for a national licence to use its Ensemble product for e-health integration across the Scottish health service.
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Just 752 patients view their SCR online
Just 752 patients out of the more than 1.2m who have a Summary Care Record have opted to view their SCR on HealthSpace.
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Europe ‘has no mobile health policy’
Jaakko Aarnio, a project officer in the European Commission’s Information Society and Media directorate, offered an eye-opening revelation about the EC’s mobile healthcare policy recently. “We don’t have a policy now,” Aarnio told an international networking conference staged in Washington by the US-based mHealth Initiative. One reason he gave in his presentation is that mobile […]
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