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Mobile and app news in brief

3 June 2016 12:00 AM

This month’s round-up of mobile and app news includes an award win for SiteKit, the company behind the eRedbook, and some interesting initiatives from NHS trusts.

PHRs struggling to gain traction and show benefits – review

2 June 2016 11:11 AM

Attempts to create a personal health records suffer from a “lack of quantifiable benefits” and some schemes face an uncertain future if new funding is not found, a wide-ranging review by the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit for NHS England has concluded.

CSUS: big differences in usability of clinical software

2 June 2016 12:00 AM

The Clinical Software Usability Survey has found big differences in the reported usability of the software used by NHS staff; with wide variations across NHS sectors and between different systems serving the same sector.

Coordinate My Care integrates care plans into Emis Web

1 June 2016 12:00 AM

Urgent care plans for thousands of London’s most vulnerable patients care are now just a click away for almost 1,000 of their GPs.

White hack exposes risk posed by connected devices

31 May 2016 12:07 PM

An ethical hack by an IT security provider of a private health clinic’s IT system has highlighted the vulnerability of internet connected medical devices.

Southern TrakCare trusts reschedule go-lives

31 May 2016 12:00 AM

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has put back its go-live date for its InterSystems TrakCare electronic patient record; as have the other two trusts in the Southern SmartCare programme.

Healthcare IT news in brief

27 May 2016 12:00 AM

This week’s healthcare IT round-up focuses on software deployments, ranging from the addition of electronic referrals to palliative care from Cumbria’s e-referral service, to another trust rolling out wi-fi for patients.