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Scottish e-prescription claims hit 60 per cent

More than 60% of payment claims for acute prescriptions in Scotland will be made electronically by May, according to the
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Scottish NHS to invest €1.8m in e-health

Online scanning to allow remote diagnosis for island-based patients and Scotland’s biggest telehealth system are among a range of hi-tech
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Welsh e-referral plans and controversy

Wales is due to launch its own electronic referral system in the summer, with a version of the clinical communications
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SCR patient consultation could be cut

The length of the patient information programme run before Summary Care Records are uploaded to the Spine could be cut
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NHS 24 takes call every two seconds

Scottish health helpline NHS 24 received one telephone call every two seconds at the height of demand for its service
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Six hundred volunteers test NHSmail

NHS Connecting for Health is planning to start "extended user acceptance testing" of the new NHSmail platform on Monday.
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Journalists warned of possible ECS breach

Seven BBC journalists have been told that information held on their Emergency Care Summary in Scotland may have been inappropriately
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Dr Gray’s plans to be e-health centre

Dr Gray’s Hospital in the north of Scotland is aiming to set itself up as an e-health centre with a
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NHS Tayside and Lanarkshire guilty of data breaches

Two Scottish health boards have been found in breach of data protection laws for leaving patients’ personal information on paper
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BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: live on the night

Almost 400 people gathered at the Millennium Mayfair hotel for the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008. Lyn Whitfield was among
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