Integrated care pioneers ‘struggling and facing IT issues’
The government’s integrated care pioneers have made little progress and are struggling with IT and information governance issues, an official evaluation has shown.
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The government’s integrated care pioneers have made little progress and are struggling with IT and information governance issues, an official evaluation has shown.
The round-up includes news of a new chair for the Health and Social Care Information Centre and head of health at techUK.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has launched an investigation into the QRisk2 calculator used by some GPs using TPP’s SystmOne to assess the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients.
Barts Health NHS Trust will share patient information with Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust via a first-of-type UK link between their Cerner Health Information Exchanges, due to go-live this summer.
The blockchain technology that underpins the virtual currency Bitcoin has been applied to clinical trial documents, to see if it can stop them being altered to make it look as if medicines are more effective than they are.
Path Links, a pathology service for Lincolnshire, is to upgrade to digital pathology in a bid to enhance cancer diagnostics.
Pharmacy2U has unveiled a £3.5 million “state of the art prescription fulfilment facility” in Leeds, that will increase its capacity ten times and enable it to dispatch a million prescription items a month.
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
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) is piloting an AI tool to assess whether it