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EMIS buys Ascribe for £57.5m

13 September 2013 9:31 AM

Primary care systems supplier EMIS has purchased clinical software supplier Ascribe.

Govt holds Caldicott line on PCD

12 September 2013 1:00 PM

The government has declined to back down over the use of patient confidential data for comissioning, despite an outcry from clinical commissioning groups and companies working with them.

£600m in LPfIT costs post 2011

12 September 2013 12:00 AM

More than half of the estimated £1.2 billion cost of the London Programme for IT is being paid out after March 2011, six months after the national programme was officially axed.

Directions for GP extract to be approved

12 September 2013 12:00 AM

NHS England’s board is being asked to approve directions to the Health and Social Care Information Centre to start large monthly extracts of GP data.

RCP launches Future Hospital

12 September 2013 12:00 AM

The Royal College of Physicians has called for a new approach to IT, built around “structured, standardised records”, to underpin its new blueprint for hospital care.