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27 May 2008

Call for e-health to ‘permeate’ rural Scotland

E-health should permeate thinking about every aspect of remote and rural healthcare, according to a newly-published report on healthcare in
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20 May 2008

EMIS enables digital TV repeat prescriptions

Patients at around 1,400 surgeries using EMIS Access software across England will soon be able to request repeat prescriptions using
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28 April 2008

Eighty per cent of European GPs using e-records

A new Europe-wide survey on e-health has found that 87% of European GPs now use a computer, 80% of whom
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27 February 2008

Hi-tech bed sheets to monitor heart rate

Patient’s heart being monitored via bed sheet. Philips Research is to pilot a new bed with built-in sensors and the
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26 February 2008

North Lincs community nurses get mobile

Community nurses in North Lincolnshire are to get wireless rugged laptops in one of the largest deployments yet of mobile
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25 October 2007

Nurses use laptops for home visits in Alston

Community nurses in the small town of Alston, Cumbria will be able to visit housebound patients and keep track of
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9 August 2007

Staffordshire PCTs hit retinopathy target

Malcolm Gray screens patient Three Staffordshire primary care trusts have managed to meet national targets and screen over 28,000 patients
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20 July 2007

EMIS goes national with digital TV appointment booking

Primary care IT supplier EMIS has extended its online appointment booking service so that patients can now book GP surgery
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10 July 2007

Community staff in Nottingham trial wireless record access

Community-based health professionals in Nottingham have taken part in a successful three month mobile technology trial, using wireless broadband-enabled laptops
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8 May 2007

GPs say N3 slow speeds limiting use of systems

GPs are reporting more problems with N3 connections and system speeds which they say are affecting their ability to run
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