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Athenahealth buys Epocrates for $293m

US cloud-based patient record specialist Athenahealth has purchased Eprocrates, a provider of mobile drug reference apps, for $293m (£185m).
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Hospitals to have e-records by 2014

NHS hospitals will need to have operational electronic patient records working by April 2014 to meet the data flow requirements
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Scotland gets GP info service

Scotland is building a national information service for GP data, due to go-live in a year.
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Pennine Care picks Paris

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has bought Civica’s clinical information system Paris.
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Special report: maternity systems

Many hospitals run their maternity services without a specialist maternity system – or any IT at all. Why is this,
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‘Air traffic control’ for Cumbria

Cumbria's clinical commissioners have bought an ‘air traffic control’ system for referring patients from Strata Health.
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Wales leads on dose monitoring

NHS Wales is implementing a facility for automated radiation dose monitoring as part of its picture archive and communication system
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The revolution will be digitised

The NHS Commissioning Board’s director of patients and information argues that digital is the biggest single answer to the productivity,
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Measure for measure

There is lots of interest in digital systems for reporting on and analysis of radiation dosage, but a long way
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Wirral adds Cerner foetal monitor to EPR

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be the first UK trust to implement Cerner’s FetaLink maternity technology.
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