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Leicester telehealth scheme expanded

23 July 2013 12:00 AM

A telehealth project for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has prevented 107 hospital admissions in Leicester over the past 30 weeks.

Western Isles is wi-fi hotspot

23 July 2013 12:00 AM

NHS Western Isles is rolling out a free wi-fi network for staff and patients in an effort to increase mobile working and internet access.

New Graphnet tech for Hants record

23 July 2013 12:00 AM

A county that pioneered record sharing a decade ago has successfully updated the technology that underlies the project.

Nurses still struggling to influence IT

23 July 2013 12:00 AM

The Royal College of Nursing has called for more nursing input into IT and more IT training for nurses after a survey uncovered a lack of confidence in clinical systems.

East Kent RIS problems affect patients

22 July 2013 1:00 PM

The go-live of a new radiology information system has caused delays at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.

Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.

Health data access for just £1

22 July 2013 6:00 AM

NHS England wants to reduce the cost for researchers to access expanded healthcare datasets from around £30,000 to £1.

EPRs essential for HES expansion plans

22 July 2013 5:00 AM

Hospitals will need electronic patient record systems to meet NHS England’s “ambitious” plans for extracting a significantly expanded hospital dataset from April 2014.