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Social media benefits outweigh risks
NHS managers should let their staff use social media more freely, new guidance says.
NHS CB appoints director of data
The NHS Commissioning Board has appointed Ming Tang as director of data and information management systems.
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).
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 set by the NHS Commissioning Board and as a milestone towards making the NHS paperless by 2018.
Scotland gets GP info service
Scotland is building a national information service for GP data, due to go-live in a year.
Pennine Care picks Paris
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has bought Civica’s clinical information system Paris.
GPs face EMIS IT outage at busiest time of the week
An outage to the EMIS IT system caused “chaos” for GPs in England when access
Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Today’s news roundup covers funding news from Scalpel AI and guidance from NHS Education for
Concerns raised that NHS digital plans could exclude older adults
Concerns have been raised that government NHS plans, including having a single patient record through
North Tees NHS saves 25,000 clinical hours in last year with TrakCare
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has saved over 25,000 clinical hours in the
Plymouth pilot gives frail patients X-rays through car service
A pilot is underway at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust to take X-rays to patients