Scotland

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10 April 2006

Ardentia acquires InFocus Health

Healthcare performance management software provider Ardentia has announced the acquisition of InFocus Health, whose information analysis solution Hippo21 is used
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6 April 2006

GPs demand ‘urgent action’ on GPASS

Leading GP IT representatives have written to Scottish health minister Andy Kerr to demand urgent action to improve the GPASS
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4 April 2006

NHS24 to get access to emergency care records

Scotland is to allow NHS24 access to emergency care summaries of patients’ GP records from June, subject to explicit consent
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31 March 2006

IT payment offers £4250 for practices in Wales

GP practices in Wales can earn £4250 under a new IT payment scheme worth £2.1 million agreed as part of the
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15 March 2006

Online medical journal access for NHS Wales

Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has announced that it is making another 90 online peer-reviewed journals available through
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14 March 2006

GPASS users doubt future use in national records

Ministerial claims that the troubled GP system GPASS will be central to the development of the national electronic single record
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28 February 2006

NHS 24 cuts numbers of ‘call-backs’

Scotland’s health advice helpline NHS 24 has reduced the percentage of ‘call-backs’ to patients to less than 20% from a
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13 January 2006

Traffic doubles on new NHS24 website

The Scottish health helpline NHS24 has set up a new-look website with health advice and doubled the number of hits
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29 December 2005

Scottish NHS staff miss PCs for Christmas

NHS staff in Lothian has been left without a new home computer for Christmas bought through the Home Computing Initiative after BT
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23 December 2005

AxSys wins major Scottish system contract

 AxSys Technologies has been named as the successful bidder in NHSScotland’s national generic clinical system (GCS) procurement. The Clydebank-based company will deliver
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