HL7 UK to hold NHS systems interoperability seminars

HL7 UK, the promoter of healthcare interoperability standards, have announced they are to hold a series of free one-day seminars
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£12m awarded to three home telecare sites

Teams in Kent, Newham and Cornwall have been awarded £12m to look at how best home telecare can be implemented.
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Junior doctors lose High Court case on MTAS

Remedy UK has lost its plea to the High Court for the online Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) to be completely scrapped.
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Choose and Book gets upgraded

Atos Origin has announced that it has implemented the latest in a series of upgrades to the national NHS electronic
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Online service launched for antenatal screening

A new web-based antenatal screening service has been launched to supplement screening available on the NHS. Genio, which offers antenatal
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New site to help breastfeeding mothers

A new website featuring personal experiences of breastfeeding has been launched by academics at Bournemouth University. The website was launched
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EC looks to mainstream telehealth

Members of the European Commission have said that they intend to set up an action plan to deal with the
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Italy develops chronic disease tools

The Italian health service is aiming to make use of its IT to create an integrated tool to improve care
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Independent pharmacists urged to upgrade for EPS

Connecting for Health is urging individual pharmacists to upgrade their systems for release one of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
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Careful and cautious progress on Electronic Prescriptions

Tim Donohoe, the head of the NHS Electronic Prescriptions Service programme, tells Fiona Barr why progress will remain 'careful and
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