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Bill to provide legal basis for digital health records in Ireland

Stephen Donnelly, minister for health, has published legislation which will provide a legal basis for digital health records in Ireland.
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HSE awards funding for Innovate Health chronic pancreatitis app

Tallaght University Hospital has secured funding of more than €300,000 for four projects, including an app for chronic pancreatitis.
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Midlands GP surgery reduces ‘8am rush’ through online triage

A GP practice in the West Midlands has reduced the '8am rush' for appointments by using an online patient triage
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This edition of Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing includes news from the public inquiry into pandemic preparedness.
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DMA must be ‘useful and usable’, says NHS England CIO

John Quinn, chief information officer at NHS England said that the digital maturity assessment (DMA) needs to be “useful and
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University Hospitals Plymouth begins digital prehab trial

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust is trialling a digital 'prehab' service for liver transplant patients.
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Queen Victoria Hospital invests £750,000 in CT scanner

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has bought a new CT scanner, which is aimed to help reduce diagnostic waiting
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Norfolk and Waveney Collaborative approves £88m Meditech EPR

NHS Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospital Collaborative has signed an £88m contract with Meditech for an electronic patient record system.
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Participants praise Digital Health Networks mentoring programme

Participants of the Digital Health Networks mentoring programme shared their experiences at a workshop on day one of Summer Schools
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Global IT outage disrupting NHS ’caused by antivirus software’

Dr Simon Wallace, CCIO at Microsoft told Summer Schools that a global outage affecting the NHS was identified to antivirus
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