Camden takes ‘quantum leap’ with iPads
Staff at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust will access patient records on iPads following the introduction of a new electronic patient record system in September.
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SCR ‘at tipping point’ with clinicians
The Summary Care Record is approaching 50,000 views per week, according to figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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Wales pilots GP2GP service
Wales has started piloting a GP2GP service to digitally transfer a patient’s record from one medical practice to another.
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NHS gets smart with contactless cards
NHS trusts will have access to contactless smartcards, so staff can log into clinical systems on tablet computers, from autumn this year.
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Luton turns records space into clinics
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has digitised more than 1.25 million patient record documents, working with Xerox.
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Guy’s and Tommy’s transform data centres
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust non-clinical service’s arm has signed a deal with ANS Group for its £10 million data centre transformation programme.
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Accenture wins NHSmail as crash reported
The Department of Health has announced that consultancy firm Accenture has won a £60 million contract to provide the new NHSmail service the same week the current system was out of action for several hours.
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EE to provide interim NHSmail SMS
EE will take over the provision of SMS services for GPs in England using NHSmail from 1 July, replacing the current supplier Vodafone on an interim basis until 31 September.
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EDM project gets £10m gov funding
Two southern acute trusts have been awarded £10 million in government funding for a massive digitisation project involving scanning around 300 million pages of patient records.
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Call to improve mHealth data protection
Greater efforts must be made to protect patient data collected by mobile devices, according to Europe’s data guardian.
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