2010 - Digital Health

22 June 2010

Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that lower public spending will form the bulk of the government’s action to reduce Britain’s

22 June 2010

The children’s database ContactPoint is to continue to operate in a scaled down version while the government decides what should

22 June 2010

A Canadian company will trial a remote pharmacy dispensing machine at UK hospitals later this year. PharmaTrust will provide its MedCentre

22 June 2010

A study in the Journal Blood Pressure Monitoring says an interpretive computer system called Dabl is able to take more

22 June 2010

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has pushed back the go-live of its trail-blazing Alert electronic patient record

21 June 2010

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at

21 June 2010

Summary Care Records will continue to be created and uploaded to the Spine while the programme is under review but

21 June 2010

InterSystems is set to be confirmed as the winner of a national contract to provide a new laboratory information management

18 June 2010

The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has developed its own software to enable staff to record patient data for stroke patients

18 June 2010

GP practices in Birmingham have used text messaging to invite patients for vascular screening checks, generating a 44% response rate

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