Latest healthcare IT news
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Tue, 2010/03/09 - 12:00am
The abolition of GP practice boundaries will increase the importance of shared medical records, according to the Department of Health.
Mon, 2010/03/08 - 12:00am
Braintree Community Hospital is to go live with TPP's Community Hospital module when it opens for business this spring, TPP has announced.
Fri, 2010/03/05 - 11:46am
Health IT system supplier EMIS has announced that it expects its shares to be trading on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market by the end of this month.
Fri, 2010/03/05 - 12:00am
The Department of Health has restored the NHS Appraisal Toolkit website which was taken offline last month after routine checks revealed it could be vulnerable to hackers.
Thu, 2010/03/04 - 12:00am
Text messaging specialist iPlato has launched a smartphone service to enable GP practices to create their own mobile internet sites.
Wed, 2010/03/03 - 12:00am
NHS South Gloucestershire, NHS North Somerset and NHS Bristol will all have gone live with RiO within the next six weeks.
Tue, 2010/03/02 - 10:34am
Conservative health spokesman Stephen O'Brien has accused the government of trying to tie the hands of an incoming Tory government over the future of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
Tue, 2010/03/02 - 12:00am
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that 1 million records have now been transferred using its GP2GP record transfer system.
Tue, 2010/03/02 - 12:00am
Christine Connelly, director general, informatics, at the Department of Health, will chair the judging panel for the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT.
Fri, 2010/02/26 - 12:00am
The summary care record roll out
Londonwide Local Medical Committees is advising GPs to consider proactively contacting patients about the creation of Summary Care Records.
Thu, 2010/02/25 - 10:23am
The government has announced that it has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in response to the latest report on the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
Thu, 2010/02/25 - 12:00am
NHS Connecting for Health has issued new guidance on the data quality standards GP practices are expected to meet before data is uploaded to create Summary Care Records.
Wed, 2010/02/24 - 4:16pm
An independent report into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has called for an "impeccably independent and transparent source" to be set up to produce comparative statistics for the NHS.
Wed, 2010/02/24 - 12:00am
BT's priority fault repair service for telephone lines at GP practices is to end on 31 March, according to NHS Connecting for Health.
Tue, 2010/02/23 - 12:00am
The Department of Work and Pensions aims to roll-out electronic 'fit notes' in the autumn, following the launch of a new paper-based system in April.
Mon, 2010/02/22 - 12:21am
The second primary care trust to deploy TPP's urgent care solution has stopped using the mobile solution because of problems with poor reception.
Fri, 2010/02/19 - 12:00am
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have gone live with a new electronic discharge system from Bluespier.
Thu, 2010/02/18 - 12:30pm
Local authorities are ill-prepared to cope with the demands of an ageing population and must look to telecare as one of a raft of measures to help them tackle those challenges, according to the Audit Commission.
Thu, 2010/02/18 - 10:00am
The head of the NHSmail programme has said that he wants "most" NHS organisations to have migrated to NHSmail by the time its current contract expires in July 2013.
Thu, 2010/02/18 - 12:00am
NHS Nottinghamshire County has become the first primary care trust to implement a system to manage GP appraisals and revalidation from business intelligence specialists 21C.