NHS Scotland gets Knowledge Network
A professional social networking site for NHS staff in Scotland has been unveiled by Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon.
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EMIS wins Glasgow GPASS replacement
EMIS has announced it has won a contract worth £1m in annual revenue to supply its software to 243 GP practices in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
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Scottish practices trial patient portal
Two GP practices in Scotland are to run a trial of an online patient portal enabling patients to access their records over the internet, the Scottish Government has announced. The Patient Portal will run at two practices in NHS Ayrshire and Arran over the next six months to enable patients to view test results and […]
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Scots MPs criticise slow progress on IT
The Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee has criticised the Scottish Government for the slow roll-out of its clinical portal and limited progress on telehealth.
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Scottish PMS deal may go national
NHS National Services Scotland is to make a decision on whether the recently announced Patient Management System contract should be widened to become a national system to cover all NHS boards in Scotland. NHS NSS, which procures IT software on behalf on Scotland’s 14 health boards and eight special health boards, selected InterSystems as its […]
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Scotland’s CMS to go national in April
Scotland has published a framework for its Chronic Medication Service which it plans roll-out nationally in April 2010.
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InterSystems ‘wins Scottish PMS deal’
E-Health Insider understands that InterSystems has won the contract to provide a national patient management system (PMS) to the NHS in Scotland. Multiple sources have told EHI that InterSystems, with its TrakCare product, has won the contract after an 18 month procurement process. The contract, which is worth £30m-£120m depending on which health boards join […]
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NHS24 absorbs Scottish telehealth body
The Scottish Centre for Telehealth will become part of NHS24, the special health board that runs Scotland’s national health helpline and website, from 1 April 2010. The move follows an in-depth review of the SCT by Scotland’s e-health Directorate. This said the centre had considerable support and that it had achieved significant success. However, it […]
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Two Scottish NHS bodies rapped by ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office has told two different Scottish NHS bodies they must tighten data security after a series of data breaches. In one incident, a senior nursing manager in NHS Grampian inappropriately emailed 50 staff with sensitive personal details relating to a patient. In another incident, NHS Education for Scotland had a laptop containing […]
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Scotland plans palliative care summary
NHS National Services Scotland’s Annual Review has outlined plans to roll-out a national Palliative Care Summary (ePCS) during 2010. The move is part of the Living and Dying Well Palliative Care Strategy and will be based on the Gold Standards Framework Scotland and the Emergency Care Summary (ECS), which has already been rolled-out across the […]
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