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Scotland aims for £10m telehealth fund

7 July 2014 12:00 AM

The Scottish health secretary has announced ambitious plans to seed a £10m telehealth fund to benefit 300,000 households over the next three years.

Southern nine rolling out TPP

7 July 2014 12:00 AM

All nine child and community health providers in the South have now deployed at least one module from TPP’s SystmOne as part of a £32m project backed by central funding.

HSCIC warns of HES confidentiality

4 July 2014 12:00 AM

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has asked a “significant” number of trusts to delete data containing Hospital Episode Statistics returns that could breach patient confidentiality.

Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.

Scale of data release to police revealed

3 July 2014 12:00 AM

More than 2,700 releases of non-clinical information about NHS patients were made to law enforcement organisations in the year to March 2014, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has revealed.

CSU builds ‘pseudo at source’ tool

3 July 2014 12:00 AM

The Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit is developing a ‘pseudonymise at source’ tool to address legal issues around the use of patient identifiable data.

‘VistA for NHS’ ready for trusts

3 July 2014 12:00 AM

An Anglicised version of the VistA electronic patient record system is now ready to be deployed at NHS trusts, according to one of the companies behind its development.

Denley and Bolton back to lead System C

2 July 2014 10:31 AM

Symphony Technology Group has completed its acquisition of the majority of McKesson’s European healthcare software business and appointed the former senior management team of System C to lead the new UK business.