GPs embracing phone but not Skype consultations
GPs remain resistant to politicians’ calls to adopt Skype consulting, with many citing poor technology and a lack of patient demand, a survey in the British Journal of General Practice has found.
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GPs remain resistant to politicians’ calls to adopt Skype consulting, with many citing poor technology and a lack of patient demand, a survey in the British Journal of General Practice has found.
This month’s round-up of mobile and app news includes an award win for SiteKit, the company behind the eRedbook, and some interesting initiatives from NHS trusts.
Attempts to create a personal health records suffer from a “lack of quantifiable benefits” and some schemes face an uncertain future if new funding is not found, a wide-ranging review by the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit for NHS England has concluded.
The Clinical Software Usability Survey has found big differences in the reported usability of the software used by NHS staff; with wide variations across NHS sectors and between different systems serving the same sector.
Urgent care plans for thousands of London’s most vulnerable patients care are now just a click away for almost 1,000 of their GPs.
An ethical hack by an IT security provider of a private health clinic’s IT system has highlighted the vulnerability of internet connected medical devices.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has put back its go-live date for its InterSystems TrakCare electronic patient record; as have the other two trusts in the Southern SmartCare programme.
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