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Primary care staff are advised to leave systems switched off this morning

GP video consultation to be rolled out next year

4 November 2016 5:00 AM

GPs across Greater London and surrounding counties will be provided with access to video consultations software, with hopes it will jump start the historically slow uptake of the technology.

Healthcare IT industry news in brief

4 November 2016 12:00 AM

This wee’s round up focuses on supplier news from EHI Live 2016, where Philips Healthcare launched a new home-based telecare product, and Fujifilm unveiled a new PACS.

University College London Hospitals set for Epic adventure

3 November 2016 12:00 AM

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has picked Epic as the preferred supplier of a new electronic patient record.

Criminal investigation after trust downed in cyber attack

3 November 2016 12:00 AM

Police are now investigating after a computer virus shut down three northern hospitals for four days.

IG Toolkit to be scrapped as part of security reboot – Shaw

2 November 2016 3:04 PM

The information governance toolkit is likely to be “scrapped” as part of a packet of funding to improve cyber security in the NHS, Rob Shaw, NHS Digital’s chief operating officer, has told EHI LIve in Birmingham.

NHS Digital Academy ‘will be virtual organisation’

2 November 2016 2:41 PM

The new NHS Digital Academy will be a virtual organisation that will make use of existing assets and infrastructure, Harpreet Sood from NHS England has said.