Google gets under skin of human body
Google has launched a body browser program that allows users to examine the human body in layered, 3D detail.
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Cloud2 builds website for Wandsworth
Microsoft SharePoint specialist Cloud2 has developed a platform to host six websites for NHS Wandsworth and its provider trusts. The company has used SharePoint tools and components developed by the Common User Interface programme run by Microsoft and NHS Connecting for Health to develop the NHS Wandsworth site into a model that can be used for further […]
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Suffolk physios create online portal
Physiotherapists from NHS Suffolk have created an online system to help them assess patients and increase the speed of their treatment. The web based portal, designed with the trust’s IM&T department, allows patients to select a GP practice and enter a password in order to complete an online assessment form. The form provides physiotherapists with details […]
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100 polyclinics to shake-up London
NHS London has set out a five year strategy for overhauling healthcare in the capital that includes plans to move care out of hospitals, open more than 100 polyclinics, and make greater use of email and telephone consultations. IT is at the heart of many of the plans outlined in the newly-published First Stage Report on the capital’s strategic […]
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Sites link up for mental health ratings
The patient feedback site Patient Opinion has linked up with NHS Choices to enable patients to comment online on mental health services. The partnership between the Department of Health’s flagship website and Patient Opinion is due to be launched today by care services minister Phil Hope. The DH said the partnership means service users, carers […]
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NHS Direct has busiest Xmas ever
More than 850,000 people accessed NHS Direct’s telephone and online services over the festive period, making it the helpline’s busiest ever Christmas and New Year. NHS Direct said performance statistics showed that it answered more than 330,000 telephone calls in the two week period between 19 December and 3 January and logged more than 520,000 […]
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£1.7m for My Health Online
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced it will invest £1.7m in a bilingual website that will enable patients to book GP appointments and order repeat prescriptions online. Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, says it is developing a “bespoke NHS Wales website” with GP system suppliers, which will allow patients to interact with GPs […]
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NHS Direct launches self-assessment tool
NHS Direct has launched an online self-assessment tool that it hopes will reduce demand on its telephone service over the winter months. The health helpline said the initial assessment tool would enable patients to bypass an initial telephone assessment and instead go on to the NHS Direct website to assess their symptoms and get advice. EHI […]
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NHS Direct to miss KPIs
NHS Direct is to miss some of its key performance targets for the last three months of the year, after facing increased call volumes due to swine flu as well as staff shortages. The national health helpline told EHI Primary Care that it had faced “major service challenges” since the start of the financial year […]
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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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