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NHS Tayside launches prescribing app

7 February 2011 12:28 AM

Doctors across Tayside are now able to download an app to their Smartphone to help them prescribe appropriate drugs to their patients.

Newcastle rolls out Cerner eprescribing

7 February 2011 12:23 AM

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has rolled an electronic medication management system from Cerner across all 2,000 of its beds in just 12 months.

BCS: revolution needs clarity and detail

4 February 2011 12:00 AM

The BCS Chartered Institute for IT has called for “clarity” about the purposes of the Information Revolution and a detailed roadmap for achieving it.

QoF regime ‘needs robust audit’

4 February 2011 12:00 AM

Significant variations in the way the Quality and Outcomes Framework is managed mean patients and taxpayers may be losing out, the Audit Commission has found.

Health still tops internet searches

3 February 2011 11:20 AM

Searching for health information is the third most common online activity among US internet users, with 80% reporting that they look for information about medical problems, treatments, hospitals, professionals and similar topics.

DH: CSC ‘unlikely’ to hit new deadline

3 February 2011 8:00 AM

CSC is unlikely to deliver on the latest remedial plan that is supposed to show how it will complete its delivery of the latest version of Lorenzo to four milestone sites in the North, Midlands and East of England.

Phone pics allow prescription refills

3 February 2011 12:52 AM

The US pharmacy chain Wallgreens has launched an app that allows customers to order prescription refills by taking a photo of the barcode on their pill bottle.