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‘Air traffic control’ for Cumbria

21 January 2013 12:00 AM

Cumbria’s clinical commissioners have bought an ‘air traffic control’ system for referring patients from Strata Health.

Wales leads on dose monitoring

21 January 2013 12:00 AM

NHS Wales is implementing a facility for automated radiation dose monitoring as part of its picture archive and communication system renewal.

TPP and Microtest sign up for MIG

18 January 2013 12:00 AM

More than 99% of UK GPs will be able to share patient data following the integration of TPP and Microtest with the Medical Interoperability Gateway.

Wirral adds Cerner foetal monitor to EPR

18 January 2013 12:00 AM

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will be the first UK trust to implement Cerner’s FetaLink maternity technology.

DH report sends mixed mobile messages

17 January 2013 12:00 AM

The connectivity needed to support a big roll-out of mobile working is not yet in place, a report on the Department of Health’s flagship National Mobile Health Worker project has concluded.

PwC finds ‘even more’ IT savings

16 January 2013 2:03 PM

A report from consultants PriceWaterhouseCoopers has concluded that the NHS could save billions of pounds a year if “ambitious, proactive NHS organisations” improved their use of information technology.

Hunt wants paperless NHS in five years

16 January 2013 6:57 AM

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has set out a tight timetable for making all records and communications in the NHS paperless in a speech to the think-tank Policy Exchange.