2008 - Digital Health

17 December 2008

Citizens across all European Union countries can now access emergency services by dialling 112, the single European emergency number. The

17 December 2008

AIM-listed health software firm Ascribe has been valued at £32.9m in a proposed management buy out, details of which were published

17 December 2008

Community pharmacists are to be issued with new smartcards to give them access to the Personal Demographics Service. NHS Connecting

17 December 2008

Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across

16 December 2008

The Department of Health has launched a three month consultation on whether it should ban the use of 084 numbers

16 December 2008

NHS Blood and Transplant is preparing to roll out a new software system to speed up the process of allocating

16 December 2008

Primary care IT supplier TPP has begun to pilot electronic discharge summaries between a GP practice and hospital in north

16 December 2008

Medicines sold across Europe will have to carry barcodes and other improved security mechanisms, under proposals unveiled by the European

15 December 2008

BT has won a contract from the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat and the Communities and Local Government department to

15 December 2008

The European Commission has published proposals designed to improve patient safety and reduce the number of patients who suffer harm

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