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Treasury targets £2.3 billion annual IT savings

The Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Programme has recommended £7.2 billion of annual efficiency savings could be achieved on government IT and
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NHS Surrey drops coaching service

A primary care trust has dropped its health coaching service from private contractor Bupa Health Dialog, as the row over
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Talking hands

SignTranslate Hospital won the Healthcare ICT Product Innovation category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards, sponsored by Quicksilva. Sandra
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What is in store for QoF?

The GP in charge of recommending changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework tells Sarah Bruce what is on the
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AHPs embrace Choose and Book

Yvonne Pettigrew, CfH’s national clinical lead for allied health professionals Use of Choose and Book for referrals to allied health
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Cerner commits to acting locally

Cerner has started working with NHS trusts on a new, local implementation model that is designed to prevent the repitition
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Cerner embraces Wikinomics

US healthcare IT giant Cerner is getting set to embrace user innovation. Jeff Townsend, the man behind the initiative, spoke
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Audit Scotland revisits meds management

Scotland’s national audit body has urged the Scottish Government to encourage health boards to take up a national Hospital Electronic
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Audit Scotland flags concerns with ECR

Scotland’s national audit body has raised concerns about the scope and quality of the country’s Emergency Care Summary. In its latest report
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ICW works on New York e-prescriptions

German e-health firm InterComponentWare has partnered with the New York E-health Collaborative and Surescripts, the operator of the largest US
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