EMIS Archives

29 November 2005

GPs are to be asked to accept software for electronic transmission of prescriptions as soon as possible as part of

22 November 2005

Almost 20 per cent of practices in Scotland have expressed an interest in switching to a different IT system with

8 November 2005

The first live electronic transfer of a patient’s record between GPs using GP2GP record transfer has occurred under the NHS

3 November 2005

Mobile messaging firm iPlato has announced that practices from two more primary care trusts in England have started using its

20 October 2005

Microsoft has announced that the number of users of its SharePoint collaboration and filesharing technology in the NHS has increased

4 October 2005

Hundreds of GPs across Britain have signed up to contribute daily reports on flu cases to a new database that

27 September 2005

A Hertfordshire IT manager reported that he was laughed at when he told his local service provider (LSP) that he

27 September 2005

The Department of Health (DH) has admitted that not a single primary care trust in England is likely to be

19 September 2005

A practical exercise to find out how many errors patients can find in their records and how many entries they

16 September 2005

GPs and practice teams are being advised to record all allergies and sensitivities as Read coded entries to solve a

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