Leading US health web sites merge
The number two and three US health website networks are to merge to take on the might of market leader WebMD.
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The number two and three US health website networks are to merge to take on the might of market leader WebMD.
A London PCT is to pay its GPs £3.50 for every referral made under Choose and Book as trusts step up their efforts to improve take–up of Choose and Book.
GPs in some parts of England claim they are facing unworkable restrictions on the kind of third party IT they can use in their practices under the GP Systems of Choice PCT-practice agreement.
GP representatives claim PCTs are acting incorrectly by setting a minimum number of records that have to be electronically summarised before GPs can qualify for payments under the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES).
Carestream Health and Italy’s San Salvatore Hospital have announced the development of a new radiology information system module that enables GPs to book digital x-ray examinations and get results back online.
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has held a USB stick amnesty and implemented new software to comply with DH data security requirements.
The PACSnet advisory group is to close, after the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) announced that it will cease funding the group.
An online survey of UK GPs by the BMJ has revealed that one in five
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has deployed CLEO Systems’ electronic prescription system (EPS) across a
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has gone live with the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
More than half of acute trusts have signed up to the NHS federated data platform,
GP blood testing services across south east London have been restored following the cyber attack