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ScriptSwitch partner with First DataBank on Multilex

A new partnership will enable the implementation of First Data Bank’s Multilex Drug Datafile into ScriptSwitch’s real-time prescribing decision support
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NICE announces implementation guidance databases

Two new online databases have been launched by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to help support
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Rewiring Long Term Care

As major work starts on 'demonstrators' for e-enabled long term care, Colin Jervis analyses the challenge.
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NHS Direct launches on Freeview for Christmas

NHS Direct is bracing itself for its busiest Christmas period since its launch in 1999, having launched a new channel
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Two-thirds in Wales access health information online

A survey commissioned by Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has revealed that almost two-thirds of people in Wales
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Bury PCT starts using GP2GP to transfer records

Bury PCT has become the latest PCT using INPS Vision to begin using electronic GP2GP record transfers of patient records.
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BT investigates slow connections for GPs

N3 provider BT has been investigating ways in which it might improve its service for GP practices using the EMIS
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Patients to be able to veto spine uploads

Health minister Lord Warner yesterday announced a significant u-turn in government policy on patient’s details being automatically loaded onto the
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Coventry and Warwicks switches to automated reporting

University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust has implemented DataWatch Europe’s Monarch Data Pump – an automated reporting
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Worskshops aim to boost C+B uptake

The Department of Health is to hold a workshop in every strategic health authority in England in an attempt to
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