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Scottish pharmacists receive extra IT funding

Pharmacists in Scotland are to receive £500 in the latest round of IT funding to prepare for the launch of
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Scotland-wide PACS deal goes to Kodak

NHS Scotland has awarded a national contract to Eastman Kodak Company’s Health Group to deliver a picture archiving and communications
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Scottish practices indicate interest in systems switch

Almost 20 per cent of practices in Scotland have expressed an interest in switching to a different IT system with
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Scots consumers call for information on record sharing

The Scottish Consumer Council is pressing for more information to be distributed to patients about the way their electronic health
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Scottish GPs choose to lose GPASS

Large numbers of practices have indicated that they want to move away from the Scottish GP computer system GPASS as
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Devon chooses Consensus for learning management

A learning management system supplied by CS Group has been chosen by five NHS trusts in the South Devon NHS
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NHS 24 report calls for radical review of helpline

A radical review of Scotland’s health helpline NHS 24 has recommended using the new volume predictive technology to ensure the
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BNF for Children launches with online version

A new handbook on children’s medicines, the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), has been launched with an online version
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GPASS Clinical may run locally

NHS Scotland is considering making the new version of its GPASS clinical system available on local practice servers as well as central
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Cisco to create N3 for Scotland

Cisco Systems announced this week that it has been awarded a contract by BT to help build the New NHS
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