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This week’s industry round-up focuses on news from the primary care sector, including contracts for prescribing software and the use of tablet computers by GPs.
Islington council and clinical commissioning group have awarded a five year, ÂŁ7.4 million contract to BT to create an integrated digital care record for the boroughâs patients.
A group of three southern acute trusts has chosen Kainos to supply an electronic document management system and clinical portal in contracts worth nearly ÂŁ8 million and partly funded by central government.
Six NHS hospital trusts have been named as demonstrator sites for the use of GS1 standards and will share ÂŁ12 million in funding from the Department of Health.
IMS Maxims has released the latest version of its open source electronic patient record, including all of the enhancements made for Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
England’s chief inspector of hospitals has recommended Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust be placed into special measures, highlighting issues with its electronic patient record as an area for improvement.
The Christie Hospital in Manchester is piloting a system for booking locum doctors that may do for agency work what Tinder has done for internet dating and Uber has done for mini cabbing.
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has postponed the go-live of its Oracle Health electronic patient record
NHS trusts using the FDP have treated on average 114 more inpatients in theatres a
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has delayed the go live for its Cerner Millennium
Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute will sit on the
Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director at NHS England, has been confirmed as the
