Winners announced in BT e-Health Insider Awards
Awards for some of the UK?s most outstanding health IT projects and people were announced at the gala BT e-Health Awards ceremony in London last night.
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Finalists named for BT e-Health Insider Awards
After careful deliberation finalists for five of the categories in the prestigious BT e-Health Insider Awards were chosen last week following presentations over two days to the judges. The winners’ names remain strictly under wraps, however. The 15 finalists – three in each category – will be invited to the glittering awards ceremony in London […]
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Vote for your Healthcare ICT Champion
The search is on for your Healthcare ICT Champion of 2007. This special category of the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2007, sponsored by Microsoft, invites readers to vote for the individual they see as being most worthy of the title. Nominations were invited earlier this year and six people agreed to let their names go […]
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GPASS abandoned by Tayside and Grampian
NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian have confirmed that they will be abandoning the General Practice Administration System for Scotland (GPASS) in favour of INPS’s Vision system. The trusts decided to find alternative systems after becoming fed up with the problems practices were experiencing with GPASS. Critics say that GPASS has been plagued with problems since […]
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Delay to Scottish primary care software report
A much-anticipated report on the future of primary care IT systems in Scotland has been delayed, and will undergo further work before completion. The delay has been criticised by the British Medical Association’s Scottish General Practitioner Committee which says GP practices are keenly awaiting the findings of the report. Dr Stuart Scott, chairman of the SGPC’s IT […]
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Scottish practices indicate interest in systems switch
Almost 20 per cent of practices in Scotland have expressed an interest in switching to a different IT system with the vast majority of those wishing to change currently using the centrally funded system GPASS. GPs in Scotland had until the end of October to express an interest in moving to a new clinical computer […]
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Scottish GPs choose to lose GPASS
Large numbers of practices have indicated that they want to move away from the Scottish GP computer system GPASS as part of the Scottish Executive’s new deal on system choice. The deadline for practices that want to change IT system provider is October 31, under the deal on system choice which was agreed between the […]
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NHS 24 waiting times unacceptable, says SNP
The Scottish National Party has accused the Scottish Executive of "staggering incompetence" over what it sees as rising call-back times and complaints in NHS 24. Figures released to the Scottish Parliament in response to a question posed by Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, showed that the average callback time rose from under 10 minutes […]
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Lack of leadership at NHS 24 leads to shake up
Lack of leadership and problems with responding to peak demand have been identified as key issues dogging the Scottish healthcare helpline, NHS 24, in an interim review of the troubled service. Vice-chair of Tayside Health Board, George King, has been brought as interim chair to help solve problems outlined in the review and implement a set of recommendations. […]
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InPS acquires retail pharmacy IT solution
Healthcare IT systems specialist, In Practice Systems (InPS), has announced the acquisition of the UK arm of NDCHealth whose Pharmacy Manager solution is used in over 2,000 pharmacies, representing nearly 20% of the UK market. The sale, completed at the end of October, was made to Cegedim SA, InPS’s Paris-based owner, and NDC Health Ltd will […]
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