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GPs refuse to support electronic referrals over patient care fears

Kent Local Medical Committee (LMC) has written an open letter to NHS Digital and a number of Clinical Commissioning Groups
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Kent trusts still using HSS RIS

Four Kent trusts experiencing problems with a new radiology information system from GE Healthcare are continuing to use a lookup
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Second Kent trust reports RIS problems

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is experiencing severe difficulties with a new radiology information system from GE Healthcare.
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Kent community gets advanced

Kent Community Health NHS Trust will start rolling out Advanced Community next month.
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Kent and Medway trusts tender for PACS

A group of Kent and Medway trusts have formed a collaboration to tender for PACS/RIS as the end of the
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Telehealth ‘could save county £7.5m’

A pioneering telehealth project has shown that Kent could save £7.5m a year by using assistive technology. A report published
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Telehealth put on the (Google) map

More than a third of primary care trusts are involved with telehealth programmes, according to the Department of Health‘s Telecare
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East Kent saves £80,000 with SSO

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it has saved £80,000 by implementing Single Sign On technology from
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UK telehealth trials missing minorities

Concerns have been raised that the UK’s biggest ever trial of telehealth technologies is excluding non-English speaking people, despite the
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East Kent cuts turn around times with SRC

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has been able to reduce cancer diagnosis times by deploying digital dictation with
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