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NHS East Berkshire is to trial technology to allow patients to carry out rehabilitation exercises at home without needing to see a physiotherapist, as part of the launch of O2 Health.

The BMA's GP committee is calling on the government to suspend access to all existing Summary Care Records.

French telecoms giant, Orange, has made its entrance into the UK e-health market by introducing a new telephone numbers service that aims to put patients in direct contact with the health professional that they need.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is making solid progress with its first of a kind e-prescribing system built within its old iSoft patient administration system.

The Department of Health has given the go ahead to a Cerner upgrade across London and the South of England that had stalled over concerns over data transfer from the UK to the US.

NHS Wales Informatics Service has confirmed that it has selected InterSystems to provide its National Laboratory Information Management System.

ISoft has announced that it will continue to develop its Lorenzo electronic patient record software under the National Programme for IT in the NHS until September 2012.

The Department of Health will not renew a half billion pound software licensing deal with Microsoft, which has run for 12 years.

The Department of Health's informatics directorate is safe from immediate change as is the job of its head, Christine Connelly.

Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust has announced it will integrate all of its clinical IT systems after signing a deal with InterSystems for its Ensemble integration engine.

The NHS white paper published yesterday by health secretary Andrew Lansley gives a major role to Choose and book in radically extending patient choice across the health service.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced that primary care trusts are to be abolished as part of a massive reorganisation of the NHS that will start with the Department of Health taking more control of its finances to ensure a measure of stability.

Alert Life Sciences has signed its third deal in the UK for its clinical information system and electronic patient record system.

BMA GP representatives are calling on the government to halt the uploading of any more Summary Care Records while a review of the programme takes place.

Francis Maude, the minister for the Cabinet Office has met with 19 of the biggest government IT suppliers and consulting firms to discuss how they can cut the cost of services they provide.

The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust has signed a deal with SRC to implement the company's electronic discharge summary.

A Staffordshire hospital is using software from clinical correspondence specialist Medisec Software to deliver discharge documents to GPs within 24 hours.

CSC has announced a partnership with healthcare kiosk specialist, Savience, to deliver self-service kiosks to NHS trusts.

Three more trusts will go-live with Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 over late summer and early autumn, the Department of Health has told E-Health Insider.

NHS Central Lancashire is using Intel's Health Guide with COPD patients in Preston so they can monitor their condition from home.