EHRs deliver soft benefits for hard cash
Electronic health record and e-prescribing systems deliver benefits such as safer and more convenient services, but only over long periods of time and with a net increase in spending, a major European study has concluded.
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NHS needs better trained prescribers
Doctors are to be formally tested on their knowledge of medicines before they graduate, it has been announced. The British Pharmacological Society (BPS) says that prescribing is the core business of the NHS, but skill levels have lagged for too long and known problems have not been addressed. The Society says current training in prescribing […]
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Wirral first on Cerner Clinical Research
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has become the first NHS organisation in the UK to start making use of Cerner Clinical Research. The Cerner PowerTrials solution facilitates clinical trials by integrating research processes into the workflow of clinicians who use the Cerner Millennium clinical information system. Wirral is currently preparing to implement Millennium […]
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Microsoft to buy Sentillion
Microsoft is to buy Sentillion, a specialist in single sign-on technology for the healthcare industry.
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What’s going on, Darling?
NPfIT was going to be scrapped. Then it wasn’t. Sarah Bruce reports on Pre-Budget Report chaos.
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Call made for push on telehealth
NHS Connecting for Health’s assistive technologies programme manager has called for all healthcare organisations to provide their patients with access to assistive living technologies, or to be forced to do so. George MacGinnis made the plea as he addressed an audience at a Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit in London. MacGinnins later told E-Health Insider that he […]
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Bosch makes move to UK telehealth
Bosch has launched a new telehealth solution that allows patients suffering from chronic cardiac or pulmonary conditions to be regularly monitored from home. The Bosch Telehealth Plus system uses measuring instruments which transmit data to a base stand. The stand then transmits the measured values to a server through a telephone line, where the information […]
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Brown streamlines government with IT
Gordon Brown has outlined plans to encourage much greater use of information, online services and text messaging in the NHS as part of a public sector information revolution that he claims will save £3 billion a year. The Prime Minister told the Smarter Government conference today that the UK was entering the “third generation of […]
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Expert view: Kathy McLean
HSS completes EuroKing buy-out
EuroKing Miracle has confirmed that is has been acquired by Healthcare Software Systems (HSS). The company faced liquidation by HM Revenue and Customs for non-payment of PAYE contributions. However, it was bought out by HSS before the hearing went ahead at the High Court of Justice’s Chancery Division. Mark Sprigg, chief executive officer of EuroKing Miracle, […]
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