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McKesson buys Per-Se

US health IT giant McKesson Corporation has announced an agreement to buy health administration transaction IT specialist Per-Se for £1bn
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Premium-rate doctor helpline aimed at busy people

A premium rate telephone service has been set up that allows callers to talk directly to a doctor 24 hours
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DH carrying out ‘confidential’ review of CfH

E-Health Insider has learned that an urgent ‘confidential’ review of the NHS IT programme and structure of Connecting for Health,
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Euroking’s new maternity goes live at Heart of England

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has become the first hospital trust to go live with EuroKing Miracle’s E3 third
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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)
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Winchester first on second generation e-prescribing

Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has become the first UK trust to install a second generation Electronic Prescribing and
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Wales starts summary record project

Out of hours clinicians in Gwent are to have access to an emergency summary care record in a project which
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iBleep PDA paging made available to all trusts

A new software system called iBleep, designed to simplify communications with doctors at night, is set to be rolled out
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DH survey reveals choice recall of just 30%

Only 30% of patients can recall being offered a choice of hospital for their outpatient appointments, according to figures from
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1000 Vision practices using Choose and Book

Primary Care IT specialists INPS are celebrating reaching 1000 GP practices using their Vision clinical system connected to Choose and
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