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Healthcare IT primary care news in brief

This week's industry round-up focuses on news from the primary care sector, including contracts for prescribing software and the use
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Prescribing tool opens up GP data

A new online tool allows people to quickly analyse and respond to the huge GP prescribing datasets released monthly by
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Another view: of federation and the IT to make it work

GP Neil Paul opens 2016 by considering some of the challenges of federation and finding the IT to support practices
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GP ‘detailed coded record’ info revealed

GPs must offer patients access to their 'detailed coded record' by the end of March next year; and NHS England
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Summary Care Records: GPs add info

Nearly all of England's GPs are able to write additional information into a patient's Summary Care Record from within their
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Tom’s digital disruptors: mobile video consultations

More and more private GP companies are setting up video consultation apps; and the NHS is being urged to move
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Another view: of the future of primary care IT

Why do so many incumbent IT suppliers get overtaken in their markets? GP Neil Paul's been reading up on the
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Enter the CCG: on good housekeeping

Dr John Lockley explains why the requirement to keep medical records up to date is harder to achieve than it
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Cornwall GPs follow Guru

A patient record sharing scheme in Cornwall has gone county-wide with all GPs signed up to share their information using
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WebGP to reach millions

A GP e-consultation and self-help web service expects to reach 2 million patients by this time next year.
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